Change Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

8 Change quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

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From a Victorian lens, Elizabeth Gaskell’s eight concise statements on change reveal her nuanced view of societal shifts. They serve as a brief, yet thought‑provoking, window into her era.

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“Nature felt no change, and was ever young.”

Elizabeth Gaskell

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“For we have every one of us felt how a very few minutes of the months and years called life, will sometimes…

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“And I too change perpetually—now this, now that—now disappointed and peevish because all is not exactly as I had pictured it, and…

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“It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young, afterwards we lose the…

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“A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, overpowered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading…

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It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the…

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“A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies.”

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“And I too change perpetually-now this, now that-now disappointed and peevish because all is not exactly as I had pictured it, and…

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“And besides, in the matter of friendship, I have observed that the disappointment here arises chiefly, not from liking our friends too well, or…

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“The first question sobbed out by his choking voice, oppressed with emotion, was-- "Where is she?" They led him to the room where his…

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Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view…

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No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

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I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

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Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart…

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“He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they…

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“Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker…

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Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character,…

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Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a…

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