Wilkie Collins Short Quotes

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Oh, Science, be merciful to the fanatics, and the fools!

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

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Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

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My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

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We were all monkeys before we were men, and molecules before we were monkeys!

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What is scientific knowledge now may be scientific ignorance in some years more.

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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

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Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

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

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Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

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Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

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What we call scientific knowledge today is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty.

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

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

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And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

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Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

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

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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

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The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

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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.

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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

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She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

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I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

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"Facts?" he repeated. "Take a drop more grog, Mr. Franklin, and you'll get over the weakness of believing facts!" "Foul play, Sir."

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But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

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I am thinking,' he remarked quietly, 'whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

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I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

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Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

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