Lo que no está en mi corazón, no lo escribirá mi pluma.
Wilkie CollinsIf you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business.
Wilkie CollinsTags: taste business occupation opposites
Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?
Wilkie CollinsTags: honesty prison scoundrel count-fosco
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?
Wilkie CollinsTags: desert england palestine arabia collins country-town woman-in-white
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
Wilkie CollinsWhat are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little stage!
Wilkie CollinsIn all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.
Wilkie CollinsTags: trifles importance details
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.
Wilkie CollinsI found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive way of writing but also lengthy. May not want to finish!!!!! This was his 1sr and only try ast Historical Fiction!
Wilkie CollinsTags: historical-fiction-mystery
When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.
Wilkie CollinsTags: evasion
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