Top 160 Wilkie Collins Quotes (2024 Update)
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Wilkie Collins Quote: “I can’t say that I woke this morning; the fitter expression would be, that I recovered my senses.”

151. “I can’t say that I woke this morning; the fitter expression would be, that I recovered my senses.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “Fancy and Imagination, Grace and Beauty, all those qualities which are to the work of Art what scent and colour are to the flower, can only grow towards heaven by taking root in earth.”

152. “Fancy and Imagination, Grace and Beauty, all those qualities which are to the work of Art what scent and colour are to the flower, can only grow towards heaven by taking root in earth.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “The tone in which those words were spoken might have melted a stone. But, oh dear, what is the hardness of stone? Nothing, compared to the hardness of the unregenerate human heart!”

153. “The tone in which those words were spoken might have melted a stone. But, oh dear, what is the hardness of stone? Nothing, compared to the hardness of the unregenerate human heart!”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “I wonder how Blackwater Park will look in the daytime? I don’t altogether like it by night.”

154. “I wonder how Blackwater Park will look in the daytime? I don’t altogether like it by night.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “Many men, many opinions, as one of the ancients said, before my time.”

155. “Many men, many opinions, as one of the ancients said, before my time.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “God be praised for His mercy! I have seen a little sunshine – I have had a happy time.”

156. “God be praised for His mercy! I have seen a little sunshine – I have had a happy time.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “Nothing in this world, Betteredge, is probable unless it appeals to our own trumpery experience; and we only believe in a romance when we see it in a newspaper.”

157. “Nothing in this world, Betteredge, is probable unless it appeals to our own trumpery experience; and we only believe in a romance when we see it in a newspaper.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “And then he said – not bitterly – that he would die as he had lived, forgotten and unknown. He maintained that resolution to the last. There is no hope now of making any discoveries concerning him. His story is a blank.”

158. “And then he said – not bitterly – that he would die as he had lived, forgotten and unknown. He maintained that resolution to the last. There is no hope now of making any discoveries concerning him. His story is a blank.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “On hearing these dreadful words my daughter Penelope said she didn’t know what prevented her heart from flying straight out of her. I thought privately it might have been her stays.”

159. “On hearing these dreadful words my daughter Penelope said she didn’t know what prevented her heart from flying straight out of her. I thought privately it might have been her stays.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “Its title was, “A Word With You On Your Cap-Ribbons.” “My.”

160. “Its title was, “A Word With You On Your Cap-Ribbons.” “My.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “I think it will end here. When I can bear it no longer, I think it will end here.”

161. “I think it will end here. When I can bear it no longer, I think it will end here.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “They have tried to make me forget everything, Walter; but I remember Marian, and I remember you’ – in that moment, I, who had long since given her my love, gave her my life, and thanked God that it was mine to bestow on her.”

162. “They have tried to make me forget everything, Walter; but I remember Marian, and I remember you’ – in that moment, I, who had long since given her my love, gave her my life, and thanked God that it was mine to bestow on her.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “When things are at the worst, they’re sure to mend. Things can’t be much worse, Mr. Franklin, than they are now.”

163. “When things are at the worst, they’re sure to mend. Things can’t be much worse, Mr. Franklin, than they are now.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “Let my grave be forgotten. Give me your word of honour that you will allow no monument of any sort – not even the commonest tombstone – to mark the place of my burial. Let me sleep, nameless. Let me rest, unknown.”

164. “Let my grave be forgotten. Give me your word of honour that you will allow no monument of any sort – not even the commonest tombstone – to mark the place of my burial. Let me sleep, nameless. Let me rest, unknown.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “I found her at the head of the sofa when I returned. She was just touching his forehead with her lips. I shook my head as soberly as I could and pointed to her chair. She looked back at me with a bright smile and a charming colour in her face. “You would have done it,” she whispered. “In my place.”

165. “I found her at the head of the sofa when I returned. She was just touching his forehead with her lips. I shook my head as soberly as I could and pointed to her chair. She looked back at me with a bright smile and a charming colour in her face. “You would have done it,” she whispered. “In my place.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “Mi devoto amor por la verdad se halla, gracias a Dios, muy por encima de mi respeto por las personas.”

166. “Mi devoto amor por la verdad se halla, gracias a Dios, muy por encima de mi respeto por las personas.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “I set down here Mr. Franklin’s careless question, and my foolish answer, as a consolation and encouragement to all stupid people – it being, as I have remarked, a great satisfaction to our inferior fellow-creatures to find that their betters are, on occasions, no brighter than they are.”

167. “I set down here Mr. Franklin’s careless question, and my foolish answer, as a consolation and encouragement to all stupid people – it being, as I have remarked, a great satisfaction to our inferior fellow-creatures to find that their betters are, on occasions, no brighter than they are.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind.”

168. “But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “When we are isolated and poor, we are not infrequently forgotten.”

169. “When we are isolated and poor, we are not infrequently forgotten.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “On the next day, the established Sunday tyranny which is one of the institutions of this free country, so times the trains as to make it impossible to ask anybody to travel to us from London.”

170. “On the next day, the established Sunday tyranny which is one of the institutions of this free country, so times the trains as to make it impossible to ask anybody to travel to us from London.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “That detestable product of the folly of our fore-fathers – a feather-bed.”

171. “That detestable product of the folly of our fore-fathers – a feather-bed.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “I give you better than proof, gentlemen; I give you my positive opinion.”

172. “I give you better than proof, gentlemen; I give you my positive opinion.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “The past and present rose side by side, at that supreme moment – and the contrast shook me.”

173. “The past and present rose side by side, at that supreme moment – and the contrast shook me.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “It is plain that she has loved him, throughout the estrangement between them.”

174. “It is plain that she has loved him, throughout the estrangement between them.”

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Wilkie Collins Quote: “I saw the pony harnessed myself. In the infernal network of mysteries and uncertainties that now surrounded us, I declare it was a relief to observe how well the buckles and straps understood each other! When you had seen the pony backed into the shafts of the chaise, you had seen something there was no doubt about. And that, let me tell you, was becoming a treat of the rarest kind in our household.”

175. “I saw the pony harnessed myself. In the infernal network of mysteries and uncertainties that now surrounded us, I declare it was a relief to observe how well the buckles and straps understood each other! When you had seen the pony backed into the shafts of the chaise, you had seen something there was no doubt about. And that, let me tell you, was becoming a treat of the rarest kind in our household.”

— Wilkie Collins

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