Cecil Parker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Great necessities call out great virtues.
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.
Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.
When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

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