Quote#Books & Reading
I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of…
Quote byWilkie Collins · 1824–1889
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Armadale - Vol. II [Collier, 1886] (p. 130).
English (original)
I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.
— Wilkie Collins
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