I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.
Wilkie CollinsI never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.
Wilkie CollinsShe looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
Wilkie CollinsWe neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
Wilkie Collins