William Wilkie Collins Quotes

• No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

  William Wilkie Collins

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• Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

  William Wilkie Collins

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• Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; ‘Tis virtue makes the bliss, where’er we dwell.

  William Wilkie Collins

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• This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.

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• The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

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• The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

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• Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

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• It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

  William Wilkie Collins

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• I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is – the enormous prosperity of Fools.

  William Wilkie Collins

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William Wilkie Collins (9)

Birth:	8th January, 1824
Death:	23rd September, 1889
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Playwriter

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