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
sat
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
lakes swans water
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.
flames adequate income
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
fiction stories opinion
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
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
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.
views healthy tears
Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.
tonight language speak
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
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.
english-novelist mind peace
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.