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Quotes from The Woman in White — Wilkie Collins

1824–1889 England

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

The Woman in White (1859)

I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.

The Woman in White (1859)

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.

The Woman in White (1859)

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

The Woman in White (1859)

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.

The Woman in White (1859)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilkie Collins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.