39 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

He was of those who hypnotize themselves, who glow with self-creation, who flower and bloom without pollen.

What a nice mob you press fellows are - wholesale scavengers!

There was no tragedy in his death -death is a magnificent ally; it untangles knots.

Being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.

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

Every shot that kills ricochets.