The best men are not consistent in good– why should the worst men be consistent in evil. — Wilkie Collins
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. — Wilkie Collins
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. — Wilkie Collins
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. — Wilkie Collins
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman’s — Wilkie Collins