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
book civilization difference english fiction future good lies literary millions pale public reading rest taught three true unknown waiting
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public -- a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization -- which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.
lying book reading
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.
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.
summer book pride
Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.
book heart answers
Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?
book masters mets
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
benefit matters printed taken
It may not be amiss to add, for the benefit of incredulous readers, that all the 'improbable events' in the story are matters of fact, taken from the printed narrative.
believe english-novelist heart truths virtue
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
english-novelist mind peace
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
men evil should
The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
expression soul mystery
The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.
house mystery liquor
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
men ruins unworthy
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
age citizens world
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.