"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up…" — Wilkie Collins
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"
—
Wilkie Collins
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
55 Quotes by Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins has 55 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
-
It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
-
Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre.…
-
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of…
-
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
-
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
-
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies…
-
We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
-
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
-
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most…
-
I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own…
-
I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to…
See all 55 quotes by Wilkie Collins »
More Bundle Quotes
This quote is filed under Bundle Quotes,
one of 114 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of…
— Warren Buffett
-
Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a…
— David Byrne
-
When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
— Richard Sibbes
-
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like…
— Louise Erdrich
-
Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I…
— Unknown Author
-
Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of…
— John Vianney
-
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives,…
— Joshua Foer
-
The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of…
— W. Somerset Maugham
-
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so…
— Jonathan Swift
-
Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a…
— Rolf Potts
-
Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from…
— Thomas Huxley
-
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State…
— Jonathan Swift
See all 114 Bundle Quotes »