Quotes by : Wilkie Collins

You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura

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....

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in....

But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way....

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which....

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young....

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found....

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the....

Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women....

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