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Wilkie Collins Quotes: "Nature's voice and Nature's beauty---God's soothing and purifying angels of the soul---speak to me most tenderly and most happily, at such times as these."

Nature's voice and Nature's beauty---God's soothing and purifying angels of the soul---speak to me most tenderly and most happily, at such times as these.



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…"

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…




Wilkie Collins Quotes: "Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? 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."

Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? 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 Quotes: "Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it."

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.




Wilkie Collins Quotes: "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."

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.



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her."

The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home."

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.




Wilkie Collins Quotes: "I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young."

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason."

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them."

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?"

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window."

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.




Wilkie Collins Quotes: "I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly."

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



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone"

Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "I am thinking, ’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace."

I am thinking, ’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "Excuse my dress. I was half an hour late this morning. When you lose half an hour in this house, you never can pick it up again, try how you may. -Reverend Finch's wife"

Excuse my dress. I was half an hour late this morning. When you lose half an hour in this house, you never can pick it up again, try how you may. -Reverend Finch's wife



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?"

The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife"

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace."

There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear."

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.



Wilkie Collins Quotes: "You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura"

You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura