Moonstone Wilkie Collins Quotes

#1. I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

Wilkie Collins

#2. If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man.

Wilkie Collins

#3. It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

Matthew Henry

#4. The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?

Wilkie Collins

#5. There's no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is to immediately start on a vegan diet.

Lisa Bloom

#6. A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

Dean Koontz

#7. O constancy, be strong upon my side,
Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

William Shakespeare

#8. People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them

Christina Grimmie

#9. Did you fall asleep?"
"No. I couldn't sleep that night."
"You were restless?"
"I was thinking of you."
The answer almost unmanned me. Something in the tone, even more than in the words, went straight to my heart. It was only after pausing a little first that I was able to go on.

Wilkie Collins

#10. Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.

Charlie Munger

#11. It was a puzzling thing as to why they packed up in towns in the way they did.

Paulette Jiles

#12. Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down ... or prisons self-imposed.

Chriscinthia Blount

#13. I thought America needed to see what a normal family was really like.

Sharon Osbourne

#14. The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash.

Juli Furtado

#15. I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Wilkie Collins

#16. Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.

Harvey Weinstein

#17. The problem is that corporations have way too much power in Congress and the government and they're rigging the system so that they don't pay taxes, but we do. We pay for all these crazy wars they come up with.

Richard Patrick

#18. He's making an attempt to look at his ease, but some men just don't know how to stand around with their hands in their pockets and look natural.

Michael Chabon