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May I ask a question, doctor? Is she pining in this close place, too? When her sister comes, will her sister take her away?
— Wilkie Collins
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
— Wilkie Collins
The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?
— Wilkie Collins
the window, turned back again into the room,
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Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us ...
— Wilkie Collins
Leave me my delusion, dearest! I must have that to cherish, and to comfort me, if I have nothing else!
— Wilkie Collins
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
— Wilkie Collins
Are you free of each other, pretty Mrs. Valeria, by common consent of both parties?
— Wilkie Collins
Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.
— Wilkie Collins
I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.
— Wilkie Collins
To-day we love, what to-morrow we hate.
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Silence is safe.
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So do extremes meet; and such is sometimes the all-embracing capacity of the approval of a fool!
— Wilkie Collins
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
— Wilkie Collins
My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.
— Wilkie Collins
Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together.
— Wilkie Collins
Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours.
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Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if only you pull it in the right way.
— Wilkie Collins
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.
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How much happier we should be,' she thought to herself sadly, 'if we never grew up!
— Wilkie Collins
She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
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The answer almost unmanned me.
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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
— Wilkie Collins
Characters to the Story,
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In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.
— Wilkie Collins
I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly.
— Wilkie Collins
We meet as mortal enemies hereafter - let us, like gallant gentlemen, exchange polite attentions in the meantime.
— Wilkie Collins
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
— Wilkie Collins
I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
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He was in that state of highly respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants.
— Wilkie Collins
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
— Wilkie Collins
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
— 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.
— Wilkie Collins
The cook looked as if she could grill Mr. Superintendent alive on a furnace, and the other women looked as if they could eat him when he was done.
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One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas.
— Wilkie Collins
He has trifled with the sacred memory of my husband," thought the Professor's widow. "On my life and honor, I will make him pay for it.
— Wilkie Collins
Grief has this that is noble in it - it accepts all sympathy, come whence it may. She
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Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.
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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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I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.
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The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defectit is always cautious in the wrong place. — Wilkie Collins
Very strange!" he said to himself, vacantly. "It's like a scene in a novel - it's like nothing in real life." He
— Wilkie Collins
Don't let me think.
— Wilkie Collins
You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.
— Wilkie Collins
The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk.
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But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
— Wilkie Collins
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.
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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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Ah! How much happiness there is in life if we will only have the patience to wait for it.
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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
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heard mother speak of him. Father? Ah, dear!
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To be told, for the first time, in this place. As the Judge
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You don't have to speak at allI know what you'd say ...
- Laura — 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.
— Wilkie Collins
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
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Some to business, some to pleasure take, But every woman is at heart a rake.'" "The
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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
The best men are not consistent in good - why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
— 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.
— Wilkie Collins
When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.
— Sonia Rumzi
Forgive me, dear Mr. Troy! I am very unhappy, and very unreasonable - but I am only a woman, and you must not expect too much from me.
— Wilkie Collins
The rod of iron with which he rules her never appears in companyit is a private rod, and is always kept upstairs. — Wilkie Collins
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
— Wilkie Collins
We had our breakfastswhatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. — Wilkie Collins
I am thinking,' he remarked quietly, 'whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
— 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.
— Wilkie Collins
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
— Wilkie Collins
Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil,
— Wilkie Collins
It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.
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were we two following our widely parted roads towards one point in the mysterious future, at which we were to meet once more?
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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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But you make allowances for women; we all talk nonsense. Good
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expression - nothing
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What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little stage!
— Wilkie Collins
See with nobody's eyes, we hear with nobody's ears, we feel with nobody's hearts, but our own.
— Wilkie Collins
The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison.
— Wilkie Collins
And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.
— Wilkie Collins
The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom!
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It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone.
— Wilkie Collins
The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me; my future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose.
— Wilkie Collins
He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.
— Wilkie Collins
I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.
— Wilkie Collins
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
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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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I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.
— Wilkie Collins
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
— Wilkie Collins
I have degraded myself by ever thinking of him as my husband.
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