Wilkie Collins Quotes

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.

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.

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.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

...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.