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Wilkie Collins quotes - page 2
Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.
Wilkie Collins
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
Wilkie Collins
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
Wilkie Collins
The best men are not consistent in good-why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
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
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 held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of a work of fiction should be to tell a story; and I have never believed that the novelist who properly performed this first condition of his art, was in danger, on that account, of neglecting the delineation of character - for this plain reason, that the effect produced, by any narrative of events is essentially dependent, not on the events themselves, but on the human interest which is directly connected with them. It may be possible in novel-writing to present characters successfully without telling a story; but it is not possible to tell a story successfully without presenting characters: their existence, as recognizable realities, being the sole condition on which the story can be effectively told. The only narrative which can hope to lay a strong hold on the attention of readers is a narrative which interests them about men and women - for the perfectly obvious reasons that they are men and women themselves.
Wilkie Collins
A very remarkable work... in the present state of light literature in England, a novel that actually tells a story. It 's quite incredible, I know. Try the book. It has another extraordinary merit, it isn't written by a woman.
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 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
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
Wilkie Collins
Don't let me think.
Wilkie Collins
Silence is safe.
Wilkie Collins
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
Wilkie Collins
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
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Wilkie Collins
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