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Wilkie Collins Quotes

Wilkie Collins quotes about life

English Novelist January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889

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I 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 Collins
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed... Wilkie Collins
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. Wilkie Collins
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. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses. Wilkie Collins
He has trifled with the sacred memory of my husband," thought the Professor's widow. "On my life and honor, I will make him pay for it. Wilkie Collins
When a woman wants me to do anything (my daughter, or not, it doesn't matter), I always insist on knowing why. The oftener you make them rummage their own minds for a reason, the more manageable you will find them in all the relations of life. It isn't their fault (poor wretches!) that they act first and think afterwards; it's the fault of the fools who humour them. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die...."
My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "The small pulse of the life within me and the great heart of..."
The small pulse of the life within me and the great heart of th city around me seemed to be sinking in unison. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through..."
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life. Wilkie Collins

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