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Gilbert Parker

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A name that surfaces again and again in collections of great quotes, Gilbert Parker clearly understood the power of language. Gilbert Parker's observations on Work are as sharp as their thoughts on Women, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Browse 10 quotes by Gilbert Parker that cover ground from Work, Women, War, Morning, and Love. To get a sense of their style, try: "The real business of life is trying to understand each other."

“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

Women

All Quotes by Gilbert Parker

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

— Gilbert Parker

Imagination

“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.”

— Gilbert Parker

Good

“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.”

— Gilbert Parker

Death

“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

Women

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

— Gilbert Parker

Business

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

— Gilbert Parker

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 else estrange them.”

— Gilbert Parker

Friendship

“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

Work

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

— Gilbert Parker

War