The Woman in White

Critique • Quotes • At the movies

Notable lines

This is the story of what a woman's patience can endure, and what a man's resolution can achieve.

— First line

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

— First line, Preface to the Second Edition

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.

 

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

 

I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.

 

Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.

 

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

 

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

 

Marian was the good angel of our lives—let Marian end our story.

— Last line

 

Critique • Quotes • At the movies

See also:

Oliver Twist

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Hound of the Baskervilles

And Then There Were None

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