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 evil should
The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
men ruins unworthy
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
clever men brain
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
men chocolate conditions
If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.
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.
beautiful men ignorant
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
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.
wine men play
There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.
patience men stories
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
men ideas intellectual
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?
men nerves looks
I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
beautiful heart men
She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
wise men fool
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.
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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.