230 Quotes by Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.

I started to my feet as suddenly as if he had struck me. If I had been a man, I would have knocked him down on the threshold of his own door, and have left his house, never on any earthly consideration to enter it again. But I was only a woman – and I loved his wife so dearly!

Ah! How much happiness there is in life if we will only have the patience to wait for it.

Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.” Only.

Oh, my young friends and fellow sinners! beware of presuming to exercise your poor carnal reason. Oh, be morally tidy! Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment’s notice!

We had our breakfasts – whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn’t matter, you must have your breakfast.

Silence is safe.

There is nothing serious in mortality!

However, don’t despair, Mr. Hartright. This is a matter of curiosity; and you have got a woman for your ally. Under such conditions success is certain, sooner or later.