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Famous Wilkie Collins Quotes
“Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.”
“I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.”
“Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.”
“I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!”
“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
“Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.”
“Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.”
“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
“The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.”