Quote

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

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
Society
Maintained
Important
Presented
Always
Fools
Phenomenon
Prosperity
Enormous
Fool
Modern

More quotes by 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
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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
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
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
We neither know nor judge ourselves others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
Wilkie Collins
Image
The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
Wilkie Collins
Image
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
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
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
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
Wilkie Collins
Image
It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
Wilkie Collins
Image
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
Image
I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.
Wilkie Collins
Image
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
Wilkie Collins
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
Wilkie Collins