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
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.
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. Wilkie Collins
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. Wilkie Collins
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. Wilkie Collins
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! Wilkie Collins
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
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. Wilkie Collins
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.
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. Wilkie Collins
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. Wilkie Collins
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Wilkie Collins
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. Wilkie Collins
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
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. Wilkie Collins
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.
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life. Wilkie Collins
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
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. Wilkie Collins
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.
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Wilkie Collins
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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. Wilkie Collins
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.
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time. Wilkie Collins
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
Born: January 8, 1824
Died: September 23, 1889
Profession: Novelist
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