Quotes from Wilkie Collins

Among the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I doubt if there is any more irresistible to her than the influence of his voice. I am not one of those women who shed tears on the smallest provocation: it is not in my temperament, I suppose. But when I heard that little natural change in his tone my mind went back (I can't say why) to the happy day when I first owned that I loved him. I burst out crying.

On the small neutral ground of self-importance, the best men and the worst meet on the same terms.

My shutting the door won't keep him from coming back. Your shutting the door will. Have you the courage to shut it? Are you fond enough of him not to stand in his light?

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

It is a habit of mine always to give up to Miss Halcombe. I find, by experience, that it saves noise.

You were restless? I was thinking of you.

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

It will be better for both of us Let me go.

some to business, some to pleasure take, But every woman is at heart a rake.' The

Collins wrote a dramatic version of The Woman in White that made its London debut at the Olympic Theatre on October 9, 1871. It ran on Broadway for three weeks in 1873.

What right had I to decide, in my poor mortal ignorance of the future, that this man, too, must escape with impunity because he escaped ME?

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

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.