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14 quotes from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #583 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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.
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
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.
“I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.”
— Spoken by a character · The Woman in White (part 4 of 5)
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
Women can resist a man’s love, a man’s fame, a man’s personal appearance, and a man’s money, but they cannot resist a man’s tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
— Spoken by a character · The Woman in White (part 5 of 5)
The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out, and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is NOT found out.
— Spoken by a character · The Woman in White (part 4 of 5)
“Because silence is safe, and we have need of safety in this house.”
— Spoken by a character · The Woman in White (part 4 of 5)
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey SAT through life.
Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.
— Spoken by a character · The Woman in White (part 4 of 5)
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.
— Spoken by a character · THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT