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Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Whenever a woman tries to put you out of temper, turn the tables, and put HER out of temper instead. They are generally prepared for every effort you can make in your own defence, but that. One word does it as well as a hundred; and one word did it with Limping Lucy. I looked her pleasantly in the face; and I said - Pooh! — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

We often hear, almost invariably, however, from superficial observers, that guilt can look like innocence. I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom of the two that innocence can look like guilt. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Is it necessary to say what my first impression was when I looked at my visitor's card? Surely not! My sister having married a foreigner, there was but one impression that any man in his senses could possibly feel. Of course the Count had come to borrow money of me.
"Louis," I said, "do you think he would go away if you gave him five shillings? — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career? — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

The answer almost unmanned me. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Juliette Miller

I began to turn my body, but he held me and laid me back onto the bed, insistently, kissing my breasts but not lingering, kissing a line down my stomach and lower. "You want me to prove to you that I want you more than I've ever wanted anything in my life, Roses. Is that true, aye? Because I just can't take this anymore."
I gasped as he licked into my sensitive flesh, wetting me with his soft strokes, speaking soft words against my skin. "If you insist on doubting me, Roses, if you absolutely insist on breaking down every defense that I have with your tears and your plush, wet, ripe beauty, then that's what I'll have to do, lass. Is that what you want from me? Proof?"
I could only sigh a soft response, already falling, burning, wanting too much. — Juliette Miller

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

He was in that state of highly respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Perhaps I have dwelt too long already on the little story of our parting from home? I can only say, in excuse, that my heart is full of it; and what is not in my heart my pen won't write. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

No woman can resist admiration and presents
especially presents, provided they happen to be just the thing she wants. He was sharp enough to know that
most men are. Naturally he wanted something in return
all men do — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

You hear more than enough of married people living together miserably. Here is an example to the contrary. Let it be a warning to some of you, and an encouragement to others. In the meantime, I will go on with my story. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I paid the cabman exactly his fare. He received it with an oath; upon which I instantly gave him a tract. If I had presented a pistol at his head, this abandoned wretch could hardly have exhibited greater consternation. He jumped up on his box, and, with profane exclamations of dismay, drove off furiously. Quite useless, I am happy to say! I sowed the good seed, in spite of him, by throwing a second tract in at the window of the cab. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive way of writing but also lengthy. May not want to finish!!!!! This was his 1sr and only try ast Historical Fiction! — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

His political and social speeches were cataracts of anecdotes and "loud laughter"; his bodily health was of a bursting sort; his ethics were all optimism; and he dealt with the Drink problem (his favourite topic) with that immortal or even monotonous gaiety which is so often a mark of the prosperous total abstainer. The established story of his conversion was familiar on the more puritanic platforms and pulpits, how he had been, when only a boy, drawn away from Scotch theology to Scotch whisky, and how he had risen out of both and become (as he modestly put it) what he was. Yet his wide white beard, cherubic face, and sparkling spectacles, at the numberless dinners and congresses where they appeared, made it hard to believe, somehow, that he had ever been anything so morbid as either a dram-drinker or a Calvinist. He was, one felt, the most seriously merry of all the sons of men. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

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. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Grief has this that is noble in it - it accepts all sympathy, come whence it may. She — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

The ruling idea of his life appeared to be, that he was bound to show his gratitude to the country which had afforded him an asylum and a means of subsistence by doing his utmost to turn himself into an Englishman. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

To-day we love, what to-morrow we hate. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Au And Noreen Cannon Au

We are called to cast our cares upon the Lord, not our responsibility (1 Pet 5:7). — Wilkie Au And Noreen Cannon Au

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

After the lapse of a minute, I roused my manhood, and opened the door. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

He was an object to laugh at - he was an object to weep over. His enemies, if a creature so wretched could have had enemies, would have forgiven him, on seeing him in his new dress. His friends - had any of his friends been left - would have been less distressed if they had looked at him in his coffin, than if they had looked at him as he was now. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us - and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Being, however, nothing but a woman, condemned to patience, propriety, and petticoats for life, I must respect the house-keeper's opinions, and try to compose myself in some feeble and feminine way. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

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

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Inevitably. But women, as you may have observed, have no principles. My family don't feel my pangs of conscience. The end being to bring you and Rachel together again, my wife and daughters pass over the means employed to gain it, as composedly as if they were Jesuits." "I — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man! — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Oh, my young friends and fellow sinners! beware of presuming to exercise your poor carnal reason. Oh, be morally tidy! Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice! — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

But you make allowances for women; we all talk nonsense. Good — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By 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 Quotes By Sarah Jessica Parker

James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything. The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater, and he looked at me and said, 'Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.' — Sarah Jessica Parker

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Classical works; all (of course) immeasurably superior to anything produced in later times; and all (from my present point of view) possessing the one great merit of enchaining nobody's interest, and exciting nobody's brain. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Even lawyers have hearts, and mine ached a little as I took leave of her. The — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren as a desert when she went out again - why I always noticed and remembered the little changes in her dress that I had noticed and remembered in no other woman's before - why I saw her, heard her, and touched her (when we shook hands at night and morning) as I had never seen, heard, and touched any other woman in my life? — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Juliette Miller

He pushed himself a fraction deeper, still exploring his lazy rhythm. I could feel his thickness beginning to stretch me. The sensation was dizzying, and my vision blurred at the edges.
"Is this what my Roses wants from me?" he whispered in my ear, biting the soft flesh of my lobe between his teeth. "Say it to me."
"Aye, warrior," I gasped. — Juliette Miller

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

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

Wilkie Quotes By 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

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Martin

You can have a lot of fun with rhinos — Wilkie Martin

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

A man with delicately-strung nerves often says and does things which often lead us to think more meanly of him than he deserves. It is his great misfortune constantly to present himself at his worst. On the other hand, a man provided with nerves vigorously constituted, is provided also with a constitutional health and a hardihood wich express themselves brightly in his manners, and which lead to a mistaken impression that his nature is what it appears to be on the surface. Having good health, he has good spirits. Having good spirits, he wins as an agreeable companion on the persons with whom he comes in contact - although he may be hiding all the while, under an outer covering which is physically wholesome, an inner nature which is morally diseased. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By 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 Quotes By Wilkie Collins

The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not, the masters of our own destinies. It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Harry Homewood

Wilkie got a bigger popular vote than FDR did, which of course meant nothing but it scared FDR. Hell, — Harry Homewood

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

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. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

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

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you? — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Let Lady Glyde's maid come in, Louis. Stop! Do her shoes creak?
I was obliged to ask the question. Creaking shoes invariably upset me for the day. I was resigned to see the Young Person, but I was NOT resigned to let the Young Person's shoes upset me. There is a limit even to my endurance. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

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

Wilkie Quotes By 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

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

This is a miserable world", says the Sergeant. "Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target
misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark". — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

So the ghostly figure which has haunted these pages, as it haunted my life, goes down into the impenetrable gloom. Like a shadow she first came to me in the loneliness of the night. Like a shadow she passes away in the loneliness of the dead — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By George Scott Wilkie

If ignorance is on the march, stand aside and let it pass you by. — George Scott Wilkie

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

When two members of a family or two intimate friends are separated, and one goes abroad and one remains at home, the return of the relative or friend who has been travelling always seems to place the relative or friend who has been staying at home at a painful disadvantage when the two first meet. The sudden encounter of the new thoughts and new habits eagerly gained in the one case, with the old thoughts and old habits passively preserved in the other, seems at first to part the sympathies of the most loving relatives and the fondest friends, and to set a sudden strangeness, unexpected by both and uncontrollable by both, between them on either side. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I must really rest a little before I can get on any farther. When I have reclined for a few minutes, with my eyes closed, and when Louis has refreshed my poor aching temples with a little eau-de-Cologne, I may be able to proceed. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

mong the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I doubt if there is any more irresistible to her than the influence of his voice. I am not one of those women who shed tears on the smallest provocation: it is not in my temperament, I suppose. But when I heard that little natural change in his tone my mind went back (I can't say why) to the happy day when I first owned that I loved him. I burst out crying. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I constantly see old people flushed and excited by the prospect of some anticipated pleasure which altogether fails to ruffle the tranquillity of their serene grandchildren. Are we, I wonder, quite such genuine boys and girls now as our seniors were in their time? Has the great advance in education taken rather too long a stride; — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

You are not to take it, if you please, as the saying of an ignorant man, when I express my opinion that such a book as ROBINSON CRUSOE never was written, and never will be written again. I have tried that book for years - generally in combination with a pipe of tobacco - and I have found it my friend in need in all the necessities of this mortal life. When my spirits are bad - ROBINSON CRUSOE. When I want advice - ROBINSON CRUSOE. In past times when my wife plagued me; in present times when I have had a drop too much - ROBINSON CRUSOE. I have worn out six stout ROBINSON CRUSOES with hard work in my service. On my lady's last birthday she gave me a seventh. I took a drop too much on the strength of it; and ROBINSON CRUSOE put me right again. Price four shillings and sixpence, bound in blue, with a picture into the bargain.
Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Are you free of each other, pretty Mrs. Valeria, by common consent of both parties? — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

People in low life have no such privilege. Necessity, which spares our betters, has no pity on us. We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

expression - nothing — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Cassandra Clare

There were also books of fairy tales, The Arabian Nights, James Payn's work, Anthony Trollope's Vicar of Bullhampton, Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies, a pile of Wilkie Collins - The New Magdalen, The Law and the Lady, The Two Destinies, and a new Jules Verne novel titled Child of the Cavern that she itched to get her hands on. And then, there it was - A Tale of Two Cities. — Cassandra Clare

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

She put the Trust into her sister's hand. Magdalen took it from her mechanically. "You!" she said, looking at her sister with the remembrance of all that she had vainly ventured, of all that she had vainly suffered, at St. Crux - "you have found it! — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

The sound of my voice brought the life back to her limbs, and the colour to her face. She advanced, on her side, still without speaking. Slowly, as if acting under some influence independent of her own will, she came nearer and nearer to me; the warm dusky colour flushing her cheeks, the light of reviving intelligence brightening every instant in her eyes. I forgot the object that had brought me into her presence; I forgot the vile suspicion that rested on my good name; I forgot every consideration, past, present, and future, which I was bound to remember. I saw nothing but the woman I loved coming nearer and nearer to me. She trembled; she stood irresolute. I could resist it no longer--I caught her in my arms, and covered her face with kisses. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Ah! he would have found it out fast enough if she had been nice-looking. The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me; my future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books? — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Juliette Miller

The attentions of Wilkie Mackenzie were a conquest, an aspiration, a dream. The fresh memory of all those women, batting their eyelashes coquettishly, it boiled in my veins. One in particular. And Wilkie looked almost amused, now that his own jealousy had eased. "Are you jealous, my love? — Juliette Miller

Wilkie Quotes By Samuel Smiles

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. — Samuel Smiles

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

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. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Martin

Love may be on the horizon, but beware something wicked this way comes. — Wilkie Martin

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Characters to the Story, — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Evil report, with time and chance to help it, travels patiently, and travels far. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I have observed, not only in my sister's case, but in the instances of others, that we of the young generation are nothing like so hearty and so impulsive as some of our elders. I constantly see old people flushed and excited by the prospect of some anticipated pleasure which altogether fails to ruffle the tranquillity of their serene grandchildren. Are we, I wonder, quite such genuine boys and girls now as our seniors were in their time? Has the great advance in education taken rather too long a stride; and are we in these modern days, just the least trifle in the world too well brought up? Without — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

Here, then, was one of my anticipations of the morning still unfulfilled. I began to wonder, next, whether my introduction to Miss Fairlie would disappoint the expectations that I had been forming of her since breakfast-time. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world. — Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Quotes By Wilkie Collins

I have abstained from expressing any opinion, so far," says Mr. Superintendent, with his military voice still in good working order. "I have now only one remark to offer, on leaving this case in your hands. There IS such a thing, Sergeant, as making a mountain out of a mole-hill. Good-morning."
"There is also such a thing as making nothing out of a mole-hill, in consequence of your head being too high to see it." Having returned his brother-officer's compliment in those terms, Sergeant Cuff wheeled about, and walked away to the window by himself. — Wilkie Collins