Wilkie Collins

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#humor

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#humor

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

— Wilkie Collins

#music

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#life

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#food #marriage #food

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#commitment #integrity #respect

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#failure #faultlessness #faults #human-nature #steadfastness

If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#occupation #opposites #taste #business

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#reason #religion #religion

In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have nver met with such a thing as a trifle yet. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#importance #trifles #experience