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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, — Wilkie Collins

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

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand. — 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. — Wilkie Collins

Evil report, with time and chance to help it, travels patiently, and travels far. — Wilkie Collins

Silence is safe. — Wilkie Collins

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. — Wilkie Collins

Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if only you pull it in the right way. — Wilkie Collins

After the lapse of a minute, I roused my manhood, and opened the door. — Wilkie Collins

We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability. — 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. — Wilkie Collins

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. — Wilkie Collins

The answer almost unmanned me. — Wilkie Collins

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, — Wilkie Collins

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

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! — Wilkie Collins

He was in that state of highly respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants. — Wilkie Collins

How can you expect four women to dine together alone every day, and not quarrel? — 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. — Wilkie Collins

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 — Wilkie Collins

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

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us. — Wilkie Collins

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly. — Wilkie Collins

The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect
it 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

Even lawyers have hearts, and mine ached a little as I took leave of her. The — 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. — Wilkie Collins

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. — Wilkie Collins

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window. — Wilkie Collins

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. — Wilkie Collins

Ah! How much happiness there is in life if we will only have the patience to wait for it. — Wilkie Collins

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women. — Wilkie Collins

heard mother speak of him. Father? Ah, dear! — Wilkie Collins

To be told, for the first time, in this place. As the Judge — Wilkie Collins

You don't have to speak at all
I 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

She was unlike most girls of her age, in this
that she had ideas of her own. — Wilkie Collins

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

Some to business, some to pleasure take, But every woman is at heart a rake.'" "The — Wilkie Collins

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 company
it 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 breakfasts
whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. — Wilkie Collins

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

Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do. — 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. — Wilkie Collins

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, — Wilkie Collins

were we two following our widely parted roads towards one point in the mysterious future, at which we were to meet once more? — Wilkie Collins

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

But you make allowances for women; we all talk nonsense. Good — Wilkie Collins

expression - nothing — Wilkie Collins

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! — Wilkie Collins

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. — Wilkie Collins

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

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. — Wilkie Collins

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit. — Wilkie Collins