Wilkie Collins Quotes
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Wilkie Collins Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: May I ask a question, doctor? Is she pining in this close place, too? When her sister comes, will her sister take her away?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-508358.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us ...](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1023327.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: Leave me my delusion, dearest! I must have that to cherish, and to comfort me, if I have nothing else! Wilkie Collins quotes: Leave me my delusion, dearest! I must have that to cherish, and to comfort me, if I have nothing else!](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1555982.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! Wilkie Collins quotes: The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-189631.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it. Wilkie Collins quotes: My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1427417.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together. Wilkie Collins quotes: Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1999071.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if only you pull it in the right way. Wilkie Collins quotes: Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if only you pull it in the right way.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-18369.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-351297.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her. Wilkie Collins quotes: She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1680773.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. Wilkie Collins quotes: I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-2079426.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-836768.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: We meet as mortal enemies hereafter - let us, like gallant gentlemen, exchange polite attentions in the meantime. Wilkie Collins quotes: We meet as mortal enemies hereafter - let us, like gallant gentlemen, exchange polite attentions in the meantime.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1275319.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women. Wilkie Collins quotes: Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1539024.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. Wilkie Collins quotes: I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-476311.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-399448.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1638196.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Wilkie Collins quotes: One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1770472.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1758820.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us. Wilkie Collins quotes: Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1950411.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us. Wilkie Collins quotes: We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1188778.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defectit is always cautious in the wrong place.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-527078.jpg)
it is always cautious in the wrong place.
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: Very strange!" he said to himself, vacantly. "It's like a scene in a novel - it's like nothing in real life." He](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1784664.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1735121.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? Wilkie Collins quotes: But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1685232.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window. Wilkie Collins quotes: He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1844922.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1865912.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1990395.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-2028659.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-2075836.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-44942.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: The rod of iron with which he rules her never appears in companyit is a private rod, and is always kept upstairs. Wilkie Collins quotes: The rod of iron with which he rules her never appears in companyit is a private rod, and is always kept upstairs.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1125395.jpg)
it is a private rod, and is always kept upstairs.
![Wilkie Collins quotes: We had our breakfastswhatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. Wilkie Collins quotes: We had our breakfastswhatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-607458.jpg)
whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: I am thinking,' he remarked quietly, 'whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-662922.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-724810.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, Wilkie Collins quotes: Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil,](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-922613.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right. Wilkie Collins quotes: It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-977116.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: were we two following our widely parted roads towards one point in the mysterious future, at which we were to meet once more?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1005212.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-467569.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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!](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1680601.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-360520.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new. Wilkie Collins quotes: And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1241659.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom! Wilkie Collins quotes: The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom!](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1349083.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-332919.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1452702.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1480794.jpg)
![Wilkie Collins quotes: 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 quotes: I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/wilkie-collins-quotes-1545214.jpg)