Gilbert Parker Quotes

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

When a child is born the mother also is born again.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.