It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
“What I shall feel to-morrow I cannot tell. Maybe I shall go blind again, for women are never two days alike in their minds… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave. — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
“She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.” — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
