Quotes by : Wilkie Collins

Among the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I....

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....

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife

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

The bleak autumn wind was still blowing, and the solemn, surging moan of it in the wood was dreary and....

The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me my future hope pauses with my present happiness....

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

You are not to take it, if you please, as the saying of an ignorant man, when I express my opinion that....

I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the....

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until....