Gilbert Parker Quotes:- Gilbert Parker (23 November 1862 – 6 September 1932) Was a Canadian novelist, and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain.
Inspirational Gilbert Parker Quotes
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 them.
Gilbert Parker
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
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.
Gilbert Parker
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
Gilbert Parker
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
Gilbert Parker
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.
Gilbert Parker
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant, his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar, he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
Gilbert Parker
But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
Gilbert Parker
Famous 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.
Gilbert Parker
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Gilbert Parker
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
Gilbert Parker
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
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
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
Gilbert Parker
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
Gilbert Parker
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
Gilbert Parker
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning, and life at that price is not worth living.
Gilbert Parker
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.
Gilbert Parker
