"No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a……" — Wilkie Collins
"No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman."
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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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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
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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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More Engages Quotes
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in…
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Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency.…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
— Toni Morrison
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The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we…
— Marianne Williamson
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Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as…
— Francois Mauriac
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The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our…
— Francois Mauriac
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When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of…
— Habib Umar bin Hafiz
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It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain…
— Stephen Bright
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I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is…
— Steve Coogan
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Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and…
— Edmund Burke
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