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.

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

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.

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

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

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

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.

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.