Wilkie Collins Quotes - Page 2

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.