Quotes by 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
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”— Wilkie Collins
“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”— Wilkie Collins
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”— 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 it off.”— Wilkie Collins
“The private opinion of the snartest man is not worth as much as the public opinion of the stupidest woman.”— Wilkie Collins
“In all the thousands of times I have asked other people for advice, I never yet got the advice I wanted.”— 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.”— 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
“The great pains we take to hide our feelings are the surest proof of their existence.”— Wilkie Collins