Gilbert Parker Zitate auf Englisch

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Tomorrow is no man's gift.

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

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

Gilbert Parker

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

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.

Gilbert Parker

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

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Gilbert Parker

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

Gilbert Parker

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

Gilbert Parker

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

Gilbert Parker

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

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.

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

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Gilbert Parker

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Gilbert Parker

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

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.

Gilbert Parker