Quote

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

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
Struggle
Nature
Light
Truth

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
Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.
Wilkie Collins
Image
My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.
Wilkie Collins
Image
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
Wilkie Collins
Image
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
Image
It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
Wilkie Collins
Image
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
Image
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
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
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
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
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
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
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
Image
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
Wilkie Collins
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.
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
Image
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
Wilkie Collins