But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
Wilkie CollinsWe neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
Wilkie CollinsMy business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.
Wilkie CollinsI am thinking,โ he remarked quietly, โwhether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
Wilkie CollinsThe dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.
Wilkie CollinsI have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.
Wilkie Collins