| Quote | Author | Source |
| "I must go to the window and get some air. Shall I jump out? No; it disfigures one so, and the coroner's inquest lets so many people see it."
| Wilkie Collins | Armadale |
| In all the thousands of times I have asked other people for advice, I never yet got the advice I wanted.
| Wilkie Collins | Armadale |
| Books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill!
| Wilkie Collins | Armadale |
| It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death.
| Wilkie Collins | Armadale |
| 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.
| Wilkie Collins | Armadale |
| The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
| Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White |
| 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.
| Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White |
| "I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong."
| Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White |
| The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
| Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White |
| Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey SAT through life.
| Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White |
