39 Quotes by Gilbert Parker

The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert.

That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

Memory is man’s greatest friend and worst enemy.

Tomorrow is no man’s gift.

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.

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.