Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.
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
Ever
Chocolate
Make
Ideal
Men
Condition
Ideals
Meet
Marriage
Fulfills
Conditions
Settlement
Shall
Pillow
More quotes by Wilkie Collins
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
Wilkie Collins
I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.
Wilkie Collins
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
Wilkie Collins
She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
Wilkie Collins
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
Wilkie Collins
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.
Wilkie Collins
I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
Wilkie Collins
And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.
Wilkie Collins
There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their winethey can't play at wistand they can't pay a lady a compliment.
Wilkie Collins
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
Wilkie Collins
Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.
Wilkie Collins
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.
Wilkie Collins
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
Wilkie Collins
I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.
Wilkie Collins
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
Wilkie Collins
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
Wilkie Collins
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
Wilkie Collins
I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.
Wilkie Collins
Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
Wilkie Collins
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 temper.
Wilkie Collins