Wilkie Collins Citas

• Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

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  Giants, Our Words, Injury

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.45, e-artnow sro

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• My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

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  Past, Waiting, Tea

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections”, p.484, 谷月社

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

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  Important, Fool, Prosperity

  Wilkie Collins (1863). “No Name: A Novel”, p.33

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

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  Struggle, Light

  Wilkie Collins (1870). “Man and Wife: A Novel”, p.150

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• Una de mis reglas en la vida es no fijarme nunca en lo que no entiendo.

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  Tonto

  Wilkie Collins (1874). “The Moonstone: A Novel”, p.54

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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.

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  Men, Self Control, Wit

  Wilkie Collins (2008). “The Woman in White”, p.396, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

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  Book, Used, Masters

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1097, e-artnow sro

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• 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.

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  Men, Tongue, Appearance

  William Wilkie Collins (1871). “The woman in white”, p.198

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• The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

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  Men, Evil, Should

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.1910, Delphi Classics

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• The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

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  Sabios, Hombres, Tontos

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.173, e-artnow sro

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• My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

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  Sleep, Life Is, Drink

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• I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

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  Fiction, Stories, Opinion

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Que la música nos hable de esta noche, en un lenguaje más feliz que el nuestro.

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  Tonight, Language, Speak

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White”, p.130, Booklassic

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• We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

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  Judging, May, Knows

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Basil: A Story of Modern Life (Unabridged): From the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, Armadale, The Moonstone, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe, The Law and The Lady…”, p.9, e-artnow

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• There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

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  Wine, Men, Play

  Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.114

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• Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

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  Life, Leaving, Tears

  Wilkie Collins (1874). “The Moonstone: A Novel”, p.179

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• No tengo mucho tiempo para encariñarme con nada. Pero cuando tengo un momento de cariño que conceder, la mayoría de las veces las rosas lo consiguen.

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  Flower, Rose, Moments

  "The Moonstone".

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

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  Women, Fencing, Sensible

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Sí, los libros, los amigos generosos que me recibieron sin recelo, los maestros misericordiosos que nunca me maltrataron. Los únicos años de mi vida que puedo recordar con algo parecido al orgullo... Temprano y tarde, durante las largas noches de invierno y los tranquilos días de verano, bebí en la fuente del conocimiento, y nunca me cansé de beber.

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  Summer, Book, Pride

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1097, e-artnow sro

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• Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

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  Men, Ruins, Unworthy

  Wilkie Collins (1870). “Man and Wife: A Novel”, p.272

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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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  Law, Brain, Use

  WILKIE COLLINS (1870). “MAN AND WIFE”, p.150

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• I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.

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  Cristiano, Mañana, Oración

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1379, e-artnow sro

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• I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

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  Flames, Income, Adequate

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.786, e-artnow sro

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• Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

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  Sáb

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Successful, Use, May

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Moonstone (Mystery Thriller Classic): Detective story from the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe and more”, p.203, e-artnow

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