Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
Wilkie Collins
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Beautiful
Heart
Men
Irresistibly
Steel
Brave
Looked
Alive
Words
More quotes by Wilkie Collins
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
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?
Wilkie Collins
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
Wilkie Collins
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
Wilkie Collins
We neither know nor judge ourselves others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
Wilkie Collins
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
Wilkie Collins
The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.
Wilkie Collins
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
Wilkie Collins
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
Wilkie Collins
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.
Wilkie Collins
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
I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
Wilkie Collins
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.
Wilkie Collins
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
Wilkie Collins
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
I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.
Wilkie Collins
The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
Wilkie Collins
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Wilkie Collins
It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
Wilkie Collins
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
