I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. Wilkie Collins More Quotes by Wilkie Collins More Quotes From Wilkie Collins Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. Wilkie Collins injuryour-wordsgiants Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. Wilkie Collins tonightlanguagespeak Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper. Wilkie Collins witself-controlmen The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! Wilkie Collins usedmastersbook I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. Wilkie Collins prosperityfoolimportant I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. Wilkie Collins opinionstoriesfiction Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. Wilkie Collins pridesummerbook 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 to talk to them. Wilkie Collins tongueappearancemen Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying. Wilkie Collins leavingtearslife My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. Wilkie Collins waitingteapast We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us. Wilkie Collins judgingknowsmay I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth. Wilkie Collins successfulusemay The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. Wilkie Collins swanslakeswater Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life. Wilkie Collins sat There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment. Wilkie Collins wineplaymen The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls. Wilkie Collins mysterysoulexpression The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time. Wilkie Collins uselawbrain Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us. Wilkie Collins littlesremembermen I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Wilkie Collins adequateincomeflames The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls. Wilkie Collins lightspirituallying
