Wilkie Collins Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Nerves, Looks

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.276, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

• We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

  Wilkie Collins

  House, Breakfast, Matter

  Wilkie Collins (2007). “The Moonstone”, p.124, 1st World Publishing

  18 Copy quote

• But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

  Wilkie Collins

  Fall, Sometimes, Persevere

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.159, e-artnow sro

  4 Copy quote

• If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Chocolate, Pillow

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.6857, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

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

  Wilkie Collins

  Patience, Men, Stories

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.1, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

• Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

  Wilkie Collins

  Vanity, Proud, Pedants

  14 Copy quote

• Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Ideas, Intellectual

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.475, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

• Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

  Wilkie Collins

  Husband, Wife, Care

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.260, e-artnow sro

  7 Copy quote

• Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Littles, Remember

  Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.228

  4 Copy quote

• And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

  Wilkie Collins

  Heaven, Looks, Done

  Wilkie Collins (2007). “The Moonstone”, p.106, 1st World Publishing

  7 Copy quote

• The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

  Wilkie Collins

  Lakes, Swans, Water

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.4018, Delphi Classics

  52 Copy quote

• I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.

  Wilkie Collins

  Girl, School, Views

  Wilkie Collins (1874). “The Moonstone: A Novel”, p.439

  4 Copy quote

• Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

  Wilkie Collins

  Book, Heart, Doe

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White”, p.191, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Wilkie Collins

  Children, Ideas, Reform

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.31, e-artnow sro

  4 Copy quote

• Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

  Wilkie Collins

  Beautiful, Men, Ignorant

  4 Copy quote

• But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

  Wilkie Collins

  Clever, Men, Brain

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.1947, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

  Wilkie Collins

  Expression, Soul, Mystery

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.36, e-artnow sro

  4 Copy quote

• The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

  Wilkie Collins

  House, Mystery, Liquor

  Wilkie Collins (2016). “The Moonstone”, p.208, Wilkie Collins

  7 Copy quote

• The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

  Wilkie Collins

  Spiritual, Lying, Light

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.1463, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

• I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

  Wilkie Collins

  Christian, Average, Comfort

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Moonstone (Mystery Thriller Classic): Detective story from the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe and more”, p.145, e-artnow

  4 Copy quote

• I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

  Wilkie Collins

  Thank God, Thankfulness, Reason

  Wilkie Collins (1874). “The Moonstone: A Novel”, p.187

  4 Copy quote

• She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

  Wilkie Collins

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

  4 Copy quote

• I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.

  Wilkie Collins

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.176, e-artnow sro

  4 Copy quote

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

  Wilkie Collins

  Believe, Heart, May

  7 Copy quote

• I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.

  Wilkie Collins

  Age, Different, Citizens

  Wilkie Collins (1860). “The Woman in White, Volume 2”, p.65

  4 Copy quote

Page 2 of 3

First

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin