39 Quotes by Gilbert Parker

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

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

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

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.

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

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

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

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.

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