The Moonstone Quotes

“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

“The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?”
― 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

“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

“I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

“You live a great deal too much in the society of women. And you have contracted two very bad habits in consequence. You have learnt to talk nonsense seriously, and you have got into a way of telling fibs for the pleasure of telling them.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

“Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice!.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

“She was unlike most other girls of her age, in this—that she had ideas of her own, and was stiff-necked enough to set the fashions themselves at defiance, if the fashions didn't suit her views.”
― Wilke Collins

“I said, "No man is worth fretting for in that way." And she said, "There are men worth dying for, Lucy, and he is one of them.”
― Wilkie Collins

“What the Sand gets, the Sand keeps forever.
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone”
― Elly Griffiths, The Crossing Places