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

“Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.”
― Gilbert Parker, Romany of the Snows

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

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

“He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.”
― Gilbert Parker

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

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

“There is no influence like the influence of habit.”
― Gilbert Parker

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

“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.”
― Gilbert Parker, The Translation of a Savage

“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.”
― Gilbert Parker

“There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets.”
― 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.”
― Gilbert Parker, Mrs. Falchion

“War was part chance, part common sense, part the pluck and luck of the devil.”
― Gilbert Parker, The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

“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.”
― Gilbert Parker, The Judgment House

“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.”
― Gilbert Parker, The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

“If you had lived a thousand years ago, you would have had a thousand lovers.”
― Gilbert Parker, The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

“When I kissed you, I set the seal upon my eternal offering to you.”
― Gilbert Parker, 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.”
― Gilbert Parker, 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!”
― Gilbert Parker, 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.”
― Gilbert Parker, The Judgment House

“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.”
― Gilbert Parker, The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker