Top 57 quotes by Wilkie Collins

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

Water , Lakes , Swans

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

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections”, p.484, 谷月社

Past , Waiting , Tea

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
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Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White”, p.130, Booklassic

Speak , Language , Tonight

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
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Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1097, e-artnow sro

Book , Used , Masters

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
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Wilkie Collins (2008). “The Woman in White”, p.396, ReadHowYouWant.com

Men , Wit , Self Control

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
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Wilkie Collins (2007). “The Moonstone”, p.124, 1st World Publishing

House , Matter , Breakfast

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
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Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.16, Courier Corporation

Stories , Fiction , Opinion

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

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
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Wilkie Collins (1863). “No Name: A Novel”, p.33

Important , Fool , Prosperity

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.
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Wilkie Collins (1874). “The Moonstone: A Novel”, p.179

Life , Tears , Leaving

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
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Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.33, Courier Corporation

Sat

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.
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Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1097, e-artnow sro

Book , Summer , Pride

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.786, e-artnow sro

Flames , Income , Adequate

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
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William Wilkie Collins (1871). “The woman in white”, p.198

Appearance , Men , Tongue