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Gilbert Parker, born on November 23, 1862, was a renowned British novelist. His works are known for their detailed portrayal of rural life and social changes in England, which have won him great popularity among readers.

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Famous Gilbert Parker Quotes

“I was willing to pay the price--any price--just to stand by what was the biggest thing in my life. But you were true to nothing--to nothing--to nobody.”

Love Heartbreak Betrayal

Book:The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

“What I shall feel to-morrow I cannot tell. Maybe I shall go blind again, for women are never two days alike in their minds or bodies.”

Women Mood Swings

Book:The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

“The one chance of happiness we artists have is not to act in our own lives, but to be true-- real and true.”

Art Artist Writers On Writing

Book:The Judgment House

Source: The Judgment House

“Destiny gives us in life so much and no more: to some a great deal in a little time, to others a little over a great deal of time, but never the full cup and the shining sky over long years.”

Book:The Judgment House

Source: The Judgment House

“War was part chance, part common sense, part the pluck and luck of the devil.”

Book:The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

“He saw that there had been a scene, and conceived that it was the kind of quarrel which could be better arranged by a third disinterested person.”

Humour Diplomacy Diplomatic

Book:The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

“Back to Covent Garden perhaps; or perhaps there will be no 'after the war.' It may all end here. Who knows--who cares!”

Who Cares After The War

Book:The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Judgment House: The Works of 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.”

Book Pain Song Voice Air Land Sweet Boxes Storm Melody Italian Delicate Ceilings Gallery Exalted Love And Pain

Book:The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

Source: The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

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

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

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

World Spirit Memories Stupid This World Deeds Foolish Repentance Refuge Repent Remorse Criminal Mind

Book:Mrs. Falchion

Source: Mrs. Falchion

“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.”

Mind Kind May Mean Ends Problem Beautiful Secret Moral Guilt Joyful Secrecy Evasion Being Joyful

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

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

Heart Broken Pride Broken Heart Broken Love Love And Broken Heart Broken Heart Love

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

“Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.”

Men Heart Dies Three Born Morning Sick Lifetime Every Morning Worth Living

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

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

Imagination Roots

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

“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.”

Want Fall Virtue Credit Tempted

Book:The Weavers: A Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago

Source: The Weavers: A Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago

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

People Thinking Trying Clever

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

“But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.”

Joy Games Buying Crave

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

“Every shot that kills ricochets.”

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

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

Law Winning Loses Expensive Win Or Lose Unproductive

Book:The Money Master

Source: The Money Master

“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.”

Thinking Men Should Different Law Worry Circumstances Should Have Every Man Commandments

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

“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.”

World Reason Light Spirit Purpose Goal Steps Forever Devotion Burning Instant Leap Lamps Altars

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of 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.”

Race Harm Be Good Fierce Severe Delightful

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

“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 else estrange them.”

Men Years Two Friendship Known Sea Twenties Remembered Sailor Great Friend Breeders

Book:Mrs. Falchion

Source: Mrs. Falchion

“There is no influence like the influence of habit.”

Influence Positive Habit

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

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

Love Heart Love You My Heart Thee I Love You Being In Love Lifelong

Book:The Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Works of Gilbert Parker

“Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.”

Men Memories Enemy Worst Worst Enemy

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

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

Children Mother Born Born Again

Book:The lane that had no turning and other associated tales concerning the people of Pontiac. Parables of a province

Source: The lane that had no turning and other associated tales concerning the people of Pontiac. Parables of a province

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

Trying Real Life Is Real Life Being Real

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

“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.”

Knows Men Eye Past Stars Feet Waste Army Lays Distance Medicine Desert Continents Relish Pastures

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

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

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

“Tomorrow is no man's gift.”

Author:Gilbert Parker

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

War Cruelty Gentle

Book:The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

About the Author

Born: November 23, 1862
Died: September 6, 1932
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 32

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