230 Quotes by Wilkie Collins

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

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.

The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public -- a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization -- which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.