"Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women." — Wilkie Collins
"Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women."
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55 Quotes by Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins has 55 quotes on this site.
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre.…
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I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of…
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies…
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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most…
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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own…
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to…
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The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has…
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More Headlong Quotes
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I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people…
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He…
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
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After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great…
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness…
— Homer
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It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do…
— Jacques Barzun
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For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the…
— Frederick Soddy
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to…
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She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything…
— Charles Dickens
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John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of…
— Unknown Author
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned…
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