Quotes from Wilkie Collins

Let the end come as it may, here I am ready to profit by it: here I am, facing both ways, with perfect ease and security - a moral agriculturist, with his eye on two crops at once, and his swindler's sickle ready for any emergency. For the next week to come, the newspaper will be more interesting to me than ever. I wonder which side I shall eventually belong to?

Sincerely as I loathed the man, the prodigious strength of his character, even in its most trivial aspects, impressed me in spite of myself. (Walter Hartwright's inner dialogue about Count Fosco)

Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself. Neither revealed by a vision, nor announced by a voice, it reached mortal knowledge through the sense which is least easily self-deceived: the sense that feels.

So do extremes meet; and such is sometimes the all-embracing capacity of the approval of a fool!

themselves in so many

We had come to see blackguards; but these men were something worse. There is a comic side, more or less appreciable, in all blackguardism — here there was nothing but tragedy — mute, weird tragedy. The quiet in the room was horrible.

And then he said — not bitterly — that he would die as he had lived, forgotten and unknown. He maintained that resolution to the last. There is no hope now of making any discoveries concerning him. His story is a blank.

Let my grave be forgotten. Give me your word of honour that you will allow no monument of any sort — not even the commonest tombstone — to mark the place of my burial. Let me sleep, nameless. Let me rest, unknown.

When we are isolated and poor, we are not infrequently forgotten.

The facts are nothing,' she rejoined. 'I have only my own impressions to confess—and you will very likely think me a fanciful fool when you hear what they are. No matter. I will do my best to content you—I will begin with the facts that you want. Take my word for it, they won't do much to help you.

That gate, said the under-gardener, turning with great deliberation towards the south, and embracing the whole of that part of England with one comprehensive sweep of his arm. Curious

to be told, for the first time, in this place. As the Judge

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money; but they cannot resist a man's tongue, when he knows how to talk to them.

Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil

He was an object to laugh at - he was an object to weep over. His enemies, if a creature so wretched could have had enemies, would have forgiven him, on seeing him in his new dress. His friends - had any of his friends been left - would have been less distressed if they had looked at him in his coffin, than if they had looked at him as he was now.

the thought of you, my dears, mounts like blood to my head...

There was genuine regret in his face as he showed her that trifling attention. He was a vagabond and a cheat; he had lived a mean, shuffling, degraded life, but he was human; and she had found her way to the lost sympathies in him which not even the self-profanation of a swindler's existence could wholly destroy. Damn

heard mother speak of him. Father? Ah, dear!

My eyes have lost nothing yet, at any rate, though I am five-and-thirty; the poor man actually blushed when I looked at him! What sort of colour do you think he would have turned, if one of the little birds in the garden had whispered in his ear, and told him the true story of the charming Miss Gwilt?

It is plain that she has loved him, throughout the estrangement between them.

Tarihleri hat?rlamam? istiyorlar. Aman Tanr?m! Ömrümde böyle bir ÅŸey yapmad?m, ÅŸimdi nas?l baÅŸlayay?m?

I can't say that I woke this morning; the fitter expression would be, that I recovered my senses.

Bu darbenin etkisinden kurtulabilmek ve kaderimi kabullenebilmek, kederimi yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ yaÅŸamak, umutsuzluÄŸa kap?lmamak için elimden gelen her ÅŸeyi yapm??t?m. Yarar? olmuyor, ne kadar aÄŸlasam da yanan gözlerimdeki yaÅŸlar dinmiyordu—

The cleverest people commit occasional lapses into stupidity—just as the stupid people light up with gleams of intelligence at certain times. You may have shown your usual good sense in conducting your affairs on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the week. But it doesn't at all follow from this, that you may not make a fool of yourself on Thursday.