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1. "I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason." ~ Wilkie Collins

2. "It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear." ~ Wilkie Collins

3. "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve." ~ Wilkie Collins

4. "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

5. "Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave the closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my journey, and take me nearer and nearer to the End." ~ Wilkie Collins

6. "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." ~ Wilkie Collins

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

8. "Silence is safe." ~ Wilkie Collins

9. "Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life." ~ Wilkie Collins

10. "I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!" ~ Wilkie Collins

11. "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

12. "...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

13. "We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast." ~ Wilkie Collins

14. "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

15. "Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours." ~ Wilkie Collins

16. "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

17. "Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us." ~ Wilkie Collins

18. "Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm—I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience—I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca." ~ Wilkie Collins

19. "We both wanted money. Immense necessity! Universal want! Is there a civilised human being who does not feel for us? How insensible must that man be! Or how rich!" ~ Wilkie Collins

20. "The rod of iron with which he rules her never appears in company--it is a private rod, and is always kept upstairs." ~ Wilkie Collins

21. "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

22. "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

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

24. "If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie's face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another." ~ Wilkie Collins

25. "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

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

27. "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

28. "The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil." ~ Wilkie Collins

29. "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

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

31. "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

32. "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

33. "Lo que no está en mi corazón, no lo escribirá mi pluma." ~ Wilkie Collins

34. "Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace - they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship - they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?" ~ Wilkie Collins

35. "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

36. "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

37. "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

38. "The grandest mountain prospect that the eye can range over is appointed to annihilation. The smallest human interest that the pure heart can feel is appointed to immortality." ~ Wilkie Collins

39. "I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly." ~ Wilkie Collins

40. "Woman's" ~ Wilkie Collins

41. "The sketch of the summer-house which she had given me on the morning of our farewell, and which had never been separated from me since, was the birthday of our first hope." ~ Wilkie Collins

42. "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

43. "extravagance" ~ Wilkie Collins

44. "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

45. "My dear friend! what is there extraordinary in that? They are all in love with some other man. Who gets the first of a woman's heart? In all my experience I have never yet met with the man who was Number One. Number Two, sometimes. Number Three, Four, Five, often. Number One, never! He exists, of course—but, I have not met with him." ~ Wilkie Collins

46. "I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs." ~ Wilkie Collins

47. "I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am." ~ Wilkie Collins

48. "What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!" ~ Wilkie Collins

49. "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

50. "I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise." ~ Wilkie Collins

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