Quotes by Gilbert Parker

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

“It's the people who try to be clever who never are the people who are clever never think of trying to be. ”

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

“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.”

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

“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...”

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

“Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.”

“Tomorrow is no man's gift.”

“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”

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

“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; i...”

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

“Marmion, I will tell you all the story some day; but not now. I hoped that I had been able to bury it, even in memory, but I was wrong. Some things—such things—never die. They stay; and in our chee...”