Quote

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Wilkie Collins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet Lawyer
Writer
London
England
William Collins
William Wilkie Collins
Tears
Beginning
Easy
Young
Come
Burst
Life
Crying
World
Leaving
Cry

More quotes by Wilkie Collins

Image
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
Wilkie Collins
Image
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
Wilkie Collins
Image
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
Wilkie Collins
Image
Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
Wilkie Collins
Image
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
Wilkie Collins
Image
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
Wilkie Collins
Image
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
Wilkie Collins
Image
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
Wilkie Collins
Image
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
Wilkie Collins
Image
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Wilkie Collins
Image
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 true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.
Wilkie Collins
Image
I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.
Wilkie Collins
Image
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
Wilkie Collins
Image
Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.
Wilkie Collins
Image
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
Wilkie Collins
Image
I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
Wilkie Collins
Image
And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.
Wilkie Collins
Image
Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?
Wilkie Collins
Image
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
Wilkie Collins
Image
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?
Wilkie Collins