Quotes by Wilkie Collins

About Wilkie Collins:

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868).
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Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?

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It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently forgotten what blood you shed, and what extremities you proceeded to in the conquering - it is not for you to say how far the worst of ...

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The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his ou...

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The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

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You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura

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Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

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There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

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There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.

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I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

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Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours.

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My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

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It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

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The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.

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Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

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The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

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It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

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I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

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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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Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

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Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

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Author Bio

  • NameWilkie Collins
  • Descriptionwriter from England
  • AliasesWilliam Collins; William Wilkie Collins
  • BornJanuary 8, 1824
  • DiedSeptember 23, 1889
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Novelist; Playwright