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
flames adequate income
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
tonight language speak
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
lakes swans water
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.
fiction stories opinion
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
sat
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
judging may knows
We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
men self-control wit
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.
past waiting tea
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
giants our-words injury
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.