Sir Robert Quotes

“I would to God that I had been able to tell the truth . . . to live the truth. Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.”

“All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive.”

“We have all feet of clay, women as well as men; but when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason.”

“She loves you, Robert. Why should she not forgive?”

“No one should be entirely judged by their past.”

“It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.”

“Besides, Gertrude, public and private life are different things. They have different laws, and move on different lines.”

“Sooner or later in political life one has to compromise. Every one does.”