Cecil Parker quotes

“There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.”
-- Cecil Parker

Source : "Fictional character: Alfred Munson". "Indiscreet", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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“Great necessities call out great virtues.”

Source : Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780

“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.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79

“Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

“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       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       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.”