Gilbert Parker
Gilbert Parker
Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC, known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1862
evil knew
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
beginning evil good occasion understand
She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.
bloom creation flower glow
He was of those who hypnotize themselves, who glow with self-creation, who flower and bloom without pollen.
born mother
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
fellows mob nice press wholesale
What a nice mob you press fellows are - wholesale scavengers!
cherished few ideas man
Being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.
real trying life-is
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
positive influence habit
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
love relationship stars
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
roots imagination
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
race fierce harm
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.
shots ricochet
Every shot that kills ricochets.
clever thinking people
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
song sweet pain
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.