Gilbert Parker

“What I shall feel to-morrow I cannot tell. Maybe I shall go blind again, for women are never two days alike in…

— Gilbert Parker

Every shot that kills ricochets.

— Gilbert Parker

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

— Gilbert Parker

“She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.”

— Gilbert Parker

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

— Gilbert Parker

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

— Gilbert Parker

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

— Gilbert Parker

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

— Gilbert Parker

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

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they…

— Gilbert Parker

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

— Gilbert Parker

The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest…

— Gilbert Parker

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

— Gilbert Parker

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

— Gilbert Parker

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though…

— Gilbert Parker

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

— Gilbert Parker

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

— Gilbert Parker

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

— Gilbert Parker

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong…

— Gilbert Parker

“There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets.”

— Gilbert Parker

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

— Gilbert Parker

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

— Gilbert Parker

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.

— Gilbert Parker

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe…

— Gilbert Parker

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty…

— Gilbert Parker