Wilkie Collins Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Wilkie Collins

  Book, Used, Masters

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

• Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

  Wilkie Collins

  Summer, Book, Pride

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

• 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

  Christian, Morning, Prayer

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

• Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

  Wilkie Collins

  Book, Heart, Doe

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White”, p.191, Xist Publishing

• The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

  Wilkie Collins

  Lying, Book, Reading

• I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

  Wilkie Collins

  Dream, Book, Reading

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections”, p.3, 谷月社

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