Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collinswas an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. The last is considered the first modern English detective novel...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 January 1824
men tongue appearance
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.
house breakfast matter
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
struggle light
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
law brain body
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
beautiful men ignorant
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
country depressing eye
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?
men littles remember
Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.
dream book reading
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
believe heart may
Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
girl school views
I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.
vanity proud pedants
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
thankfulness thank-god reason
I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
night temptation gowns
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!
husband wife care
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.