Wilkie Collins Moonstone Quotes & Sayings

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. — T. S. Eliot

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly. — Wilkie Collins

Try to live with a generous heart. Doing anything else is too hard. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Tips for a long life - Keep Sweet, Keep Friendly, Keep Loving, if ye would ... keep Y O U N G — Edgar Cayce

Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation. — James Purdy

When I realized, "Hm, I'm not that good at all. It will take me weeks, maybe months, to master the 32 yolks." When I did, it was a turning point in my career. — Eric Ripert

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

He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

He(E.A.Poe) cannot be blamed for not saying clearly what beauty is. The greatest philosophers in the world acknowledge in the end that the best one can do is to recognize it when it is there. — Etienne Gilson

Did you fall asleep?"
"No. I couldn't sleep that night."
"You were restless?"
"I was thinking of you."
The answer almost unmanned me. Something in the tone, even more than in the words, went straight to my heart. It was only after pausing a little first that I was able to go on. — Wilkie Collins

The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it? — 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

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. — Joseph Heller

Here follows the substance of what I said, written out entirely for your benefit. Pay attention to it, or you will be all abroad, when we get deeper into the story. Clear your mind of the children, or the dinner, or the new bonnet, or what not. Try if you can't forget politics, horses, prices in the city and grievances at the club. I hope you won't take this freedom on my part amiss; it's only a way I have of appealing to a gentle reader. Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to wander when it's a book that asks for it, instead of a person? — Wilkie Collins

PSA68.19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. — Anonymous

You're as happy as you allow yourself to be - so why be unhappy? — Marilyn Quayle