Gilbert Parker

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

Top Gilbert Parker Quotes

"Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy."

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

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

"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."

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

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