The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil. - Wilkie Collins
The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
- Wilkie Collins
Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how … - Wilkie Collins
Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how …
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. - Wilkie Collins
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand. - Wilkie Collins
It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. - Wilkie Collins
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! - Wilkie Collins
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. - Wilkie Collins
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light. - Wilkie Collins
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. - Wilkie Collins
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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