| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| "The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild." | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone |  |
| We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
| 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 | The Moonstone | |
| It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
| Every human institution (justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
| "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." | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
| "This is a miserable world," says the Sergeant. "Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target—misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark." | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
| Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
| I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you–which is a great comfort–are, in this respect, much the same as I am. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
| Over and over again in my past experience among my perishing fellow-creatures, the members of the notoriously infidel profession of Medicine had stepped between me and my mission of mercy—on the miserable pretence that the patient wanted quiet, and that the disturbing influence of all others which they most dreaded, was the influence of Miss Clack and her Books. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
