The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

See that she chews her food well and sets her foot down firmly on the ground when she walks, and you're all right.

I set down here Mr. Franklin's careless question, and my foolish answer, as a consolation and encouragement to all stupid people – it being, as I have remarked, a great satisfaction to our inferior fellow-creatures to find that their betters are, on occasions, no brighter than they are.

whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

the day is not far off when the poor will rise against the rich. I pray Heaven they may begin with him. I pray Heaven they may begin with him."

Different women have different ways of riding the high horse. The late Mrs. Betteredge took her exercise on that favourite female animal whenever I happened to deny her anything that she had set her heart on.

I am a little in love with this narrator. His marriage was not have happy, but he is an inveterate romantic.

Physiology says, and says truly, that some men are born with female constitutions – and I am one of them!"

Having one foot already in the grave, sir, the fewer lies you expect me to tell, the more I shall be indebted to you, when my conscience pricks me and my time comes."

Blake, which has distinguished my professional career! It's only in books that the officers of the detective force are superior to the weakness of making a mistake."

Let nobody laugh at the unique anecdote here related. You are welcome to be as merry as you please over everything else I have written. But when I write of Robinson Crusoe, by the Lord it's serious – and I request you to take it accordingly!