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