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Wilkie Collins Quotes

Wilkie Collins quotes

English Novelist January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889

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Wilkie Collins quote: "Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind."
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. Wilkie Collins
I turned towards the garden when the door had closed on her. Miss Halcombe was standing with her hat in her hand, and her shawl over her arm, by the large window that led out to the lawn, and was looking at me attentively. Wilkie Collins
If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man". Wilkie Collins
I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and..."
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "Dont speak of tomorrow. Let the music speak to us tonight, in..."
Dont speak of tomorrow. Let the music speak to us tonight, in a happier language than ours. Wilkie Collins
Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an honest woman, I don't agree with you. There are some people who bring dull minds to their reading - and them blame the writer for it. I say no more. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language..."
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. Wilkie Collins
What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little stage! Wilkie Collins
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. Wilkie Collins
Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "Silence is safe."
Silence is safe. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes, but it has..."
The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes, but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue..."
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "--the long luxury of your own freedom has made you incapable..."
--the long luxury of your own freedom has made you incapable of doing us justice now. Wilkie Collins

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