Wilkie Collins: Use

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Wilkie Collins: 72 quotes1 like

“Dont speak of tomorrow. Let the music speak to us tonight, in a happier language than ours.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Variant: Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
Source: The Woman in White

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”

Wilkie Collins book Armadale

Source: Armadale

“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: The Woman in White

“Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: The Woman in White

“Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: The Woman in White

“… it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: The Woman in White

“No man under Heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace — they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship — they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel.”

Wilkie Collins book The Law and the Lady

Vol. I [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 194 https://books.google.com/books?id=wUN2KP79lhUC&amp;pg=PA194) <br class="br">Also in The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction edited by Andrew Mangham [Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 1-107-51169-0] ( p. 82 https://books.google.com/books?id=rQZCAQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA82) <br class="br">The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters [Princeton University Press, 2014, ISBN 1-400-86345-7] ( p. 224 https://books.google.com/books?id=T0AABAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA224) <br class="br">Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann by Sara Lennox [University of Massachusetts Press, 2006, ISBN 1-558-49552-5] ( p. 227 https://books.google.com/books?id=_9VjDtk5ss4C&amp;pg=PA227) <br class="br">The Law and the Lady (1875)

“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.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

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The Woman in White (1859)