Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collinswas an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. The last is considered the first modern English detective novel...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 January 1824
english-novelist mind peace
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
benefit matters printed taken
It may not be amiss to add, for the benefit of incredulous readers, that all the 'improbable events' in the story are matters of fact, taken from the printed narrative.
expression soul mystery
The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.
house mystery liquor
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
betrayal brotherhood doubt
Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.
silly
It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
clever men brain
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
men tongue appearance
Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
house breakfast matter
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
struggle light
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
law brain body
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
beautiful men ignorant
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
country depressing eye
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?
men littles remember
Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.