Quotes from “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins

Here are some quotes from “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins which I liked:

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

I am an old man, and I take the practical view. You are a young man, and you take the romantic view.

Then, with that courage which women lose so often in the small emergency, and so seldom in the great...

Being, however, nothing but a woman, condemned to patience, propriety, and petticoats for life, I must respect the housekeeper’s opinions, and try to compose myself in some feeble and feminine way.

The misery of a weak, helpless, dumb creature is surely one of the saddest of all the mournful sights which this world can show.

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.

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. 

It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone.

I had gone out to fly from my own future. I come back to face it, as a man should.

Oh, death, thou hast thy sting! oh, grave, thou hast thy victory!

The best men are not consistent in good - why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

Like a shadow she first came to me in the loneliness of the night. Like a shadow she passes away in the loneliness of the dead.