Quotes About Wilkie

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

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

Victorian novel, perhaps something by Wilkie Collins.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.

If it's any comfort to you, collar me again. You don't in the least know how to do it; but I'll overlook your awkwardness in consideration of your feelings.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

I found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive way of writing but also lengthy. May not want to finish!!!!! This was his 1sr and only try ast Historical Fiction!

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)

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.

Very strange! he said to himself, vacantly. It's like a scene in a novel—it's like nothing in real life. He

the window, turned back again into the room

The solemn servant was far too highly trained to betray the slightest satisfaction.

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.

I spent the morning reading, my Lady.' 'And what were you reading?' 'Mr Wilkie Collins's No Name, my Lady.' She looked at me sourly.