| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light. | Wilkie Collins | Man and Wife |  |
| The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. | Wilkie Collins | Man and Wife |  |
| "The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time." | Wilkie Collins | Man and Wife |  |
| "The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild." | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone |  |
| We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone |  |
| "I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income." | Wilkie Collins | No Name |  |
| "I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is -- the enormous prosperity of Fools." | Wilkie Collins | No Name |  |
| "Are there, infinitely varying with each individual, inbred forces of Good and Evil in all of us, deep down below the reach of mortal encouragement and mortal repression -- hidden Good and hidden Evil, both alike at the mercy of the liberating opportunity and the sufficient temptation?" | Wilkie Collins | No Name |  |
| If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond—bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone |  |
| It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone |  |