Quotes

"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." ~ The Weavers by 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. ~ The Right of Way by Gilbert Parker "I am only myself when I am drunk. Liquor makes me human. At other times I'm merely Charley Steele!" ~ The Right of Way by Gilbert Parker When a child is born the mother also is born again. ~ Parables Of A Province by Gilbert Parker Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot "Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars." ~ Parables Of A Province by Gilbert Parker "Don't you love heavy fragrances, faint with sweetness, ravishing juices of odor, heliotropes, violets, water-lilies,--powerful attars and extracts that snatch your soul off your lips?" ~ The Amber Gods by Harriet Prescott Spofford The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love. ~ The Amber Gods by Harriet Prescott Spofford He is one of those people to whom you must allow moods,--when their sun shines, dance,--and when their vapors rise, sit in the the shadow. ~ The Amber Gods by Harriet Prescott Spofford "It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur." ~ The Battle Of The Strong by Gilbert Parker