230 Quotes by Wilkie Collins

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.

To-day we love, what to-morrow we hate.

Let us say your wife dies – –.

The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is not found out.

After the lapse of a minute, I roused my manhood, and opened the door.

How can you expect four women to dine together alone every day, and not quarrel?

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don’t understand.

Are you free of each other, pretty Mrs. Valeria, by common consent of both parties?

Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed.