Wilkie Collins's Quotes

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

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

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