Quotes by : Wilkie Collins

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains....

The clouds had gathered, within the last half-hour. The light was dull; the distance was dim. The lovely....

If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face,....

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

Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same....

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough,....

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was....

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes....