English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Wilkie Collins Quotes

Wilkie Collins quotes about words

English Novelist January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889

Wilkie Collins quotes in russian
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

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
Perhaps you think you see a certain contradiction here? In that case, a word in your ear. Study your wife closely, for the next four-and-twenty hours. If your good lady doesn't exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you!--you have married a monster. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave..."
She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match..."
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins quote: "Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs..."
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. Wilkie Collins

Popular Author

Related Authors