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.Wilkie Collins
In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.Count Fosco
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.Walter Hartright
Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day on the surface. Sand turns traitor, and betrays the footstep that has passed over it.Marian Halcombe
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.Walter Hartright
I see a sad procession, and I hear the sound of coming full-handed years.Walter Hartright
A Woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought. They overcome her.Count Fosco
There is a great deal too much of the nineteenth century about her, and not a particle of the eighteenth.Count Fosco
Paint us an angel, if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory.Walter Hartright
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.Marian Halcombe