The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first in the genre of "sensation novels".
“Dont speak of tomorrow. Let the music speak to us tonight, in a happier language than ours.”
Variant: Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
Source: The Woman in White
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
Source: The Woman in White
Source: The Woman in White
“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”
Source: The Woman in White
Volume 1 [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 336 https://books.google.com/books?id=rszxUvpszaMC&pg=PA336)
Also in The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters ( p. 224 https://books.google.com/books?id=T0AABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA224)
Source: The Woman in White (1859)
Source: Collins explaining what he calls the literary principal guiding him, in the preface of the second edition of The Woman in White. Also in Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins by Maria K. Bachman & Don Richard Cox [University of Tennessee Press, 2003, ISBN 1-572-33274-3] ( p. xiv https://books.google.com/books?id=_X8AlmIp0dwC&pg=PR14)
“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”
Source: The Woman in White
“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
Source: The Woman in White
“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
Volume II [Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 226 https://books.google.com/books?id=xAm2X8YfpJIC&pg=PA226)
Also in The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-442-41960-1] ( p. 169 https://books.google.com/books?id=o1ctj37QuikC&pg=PA169)
Source: The Woman in White (1859)
“I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.”
Volume II [Tauchnitz,
Source: The Woman in White (1859)
