Quotes by Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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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 tru — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently forgo — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper. — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual natu — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed k — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out. — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the prod — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than t — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
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 — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual natu — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then on — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought t — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White