I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly.
Wilkie CollinsThe fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
Wilkie CollinsThe only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not, the masters of our own destinies. It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death.
Wilkie CollinsDemandez-vous s´il y a une explication au mystere de la vie et de la mort
Wilkie CollinsTell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. There's another bit of copy-book morality for you, Fosco. Crimes cause their own detection. What infernal humbug!
Wilkie CollinsThe grandest mountain prospect that the eye can range over is appointed to annihilation. The smallest human interest that the pure heart can feel is appointed to immortality.
Wilkie CollinsNot the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm—I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience—I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.
Wilkie CollinsI say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.
Wilkie CollinsThe best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
Wilkie CollinsTags: good-and-evil consistent mr-hartright
We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
Wilkie CollinsTags: humor
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