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
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.
life leaving tears
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.
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?
important fool prosperity
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
mother vegetables mind
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.
fall persevere sometimes
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?