I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
—Wilkie Collins
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
—Wilkie Collins
Topics: Marriage
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.
—Wilkie Collins
The actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason
—Wilkie Collins
We had our breakfasts—whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn’t matter, you must have your breakfast.
—Wilkie Collins
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
—Wilkie Collins
Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.
—Wilkie Collins
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
—Wilkie Collins
Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death.
—Wilkie Collins
Your tears come easy , when you’re young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you’re old, and leaving it.
—Wilkie Collins
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
—Wilkie Collins
Topics: Peace
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