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

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

- Wilkie Collins

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

- Wilkie Collins

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

- Wilkie Collins

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

- Wilkie Collins

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

- Wilkie Collins

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

- Wilkie Collins

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

- Wilkie Collins

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

- Wilkie Collins