01c. 1856 ADHe was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.Wilkie Collins / quote ↗
02c. 1856 ADI hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.Wilkie Collins / quote ↗
03c. 1856 ADNot a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another aloneWilkie Collins / quote ↗
04c. 1856 ADI am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.Wilkie Collins / quote ↗
05c. 1856 ADThe bleak autumn wind was still blowing, and the solemn, surging moan of it in the wood was dreary and awful to hear through the night silence. Issac felt strangely wakeful. He resolved, as he lay down in bed, to keep the candle alight until he began to grow sleepy; for there was something unendurably depressing in the bare idea of lying awake in the darkness, listening to the dismal, ceaseless moan of the wind in the wood. ("The Dream Woman")Wilkie Collins / quote ↗
06c. 1856 ADExcuse my dress. I was half an hour late this morning. When you lose half an hour in this house, you never can pick it up again, try how you may. -Reverend Finch's wifeWilkie Collins / quote ↗
07c. 1856 ADYour 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1856 ADThe best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?Wilkie Collins / quote ↗
09c. 1856 ADI find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wifeWilkie Collins / quote ↗
10c. 1856 ADThere is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.Wilkie Collins / quote ↗
11c. 1856 ADIt was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.Wilkie Collins / quote ↗
13c. 1856 ADThis is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.Wilkie Collins / quote ↗
14c. 1856 ADI have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.Wilkie Collins / quote ↗
