Quotes from Gilbert Parker

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

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.

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

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

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

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

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.

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.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

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.

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.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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