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Wilkie Collins, born on January 8, 1824, and died on September 23, 1889, was a renowned British novelist. He is best known for his suspense and detective novels, being one of the pioneers of this literary genre. His works, such as 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone', are particularly famous.

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Famous Wilkie Collins Quotes

“The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?”

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Book:The Moonstone

Source: The Moonstone

“If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man".”

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“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.”

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Book:The Moonstone

Source: The Moonstone

“I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.”

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Book:The Moonstone

Source: The Moonstone

“You live a great deal too much in the society of women. And you have contracted two very bad habits in consequence. You have learnt to talk nonsense seriously, and you have got into a way of telling fibs for the pleasure of telling them.”

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Book:The Moonstone

Source: The Moonstone

“Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice!.”

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Book:The Moonstone

Source: The Moonstone

“I said, "No man is worth fretting for in that way." And she said, "There are men worth dying for, Lucy, and he is one of them.”

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Author:Wilkie Collins

About the Author

Born: January 8, 1824
Died: September 23, 1889
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 116

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