A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“A child should be brought up with its parents, if it is to think them infallible when it grows up." "But though… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I've thought o' my life, and the little pleasure I've had in it, I've believed that, maybe, I was one… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowing what she… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“They were a motley assembly, each with some cause for anxiety stirring at his heart; though, after all, that is saying little… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“My father once made us," she began, "keep a diary, in two columns; on one side we were to put down in… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“For we have every one of us felt how a very few minutes of the months and years called life, will sometimes… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
...yet, even before he left the room, - and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The fever” was (as it usually is in Manchester) of a low, putrid, typhoid kind; brought on by miserable living, filthy neighbourhood,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I take it that “gentleman” is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I tell you, I cannot. I could not lead a virtuous life if I would. I should only disgrace you. If you… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I do not want to be relieved from any obligation,' said he, goaded by her calm manner. 'Fancied, or not fancied -… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I choose to believe that I owe my very life to you--ay--smile, and think it an exaggeration if you will. I believe… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“A man leads a dree life who's not i' th' Union. But once i' the' Union, his interests are taken care on… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life…My precept is, do something, my… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The world is not everything Ruth. Nor is the want of men’s good opinion and esteem the highest need which man has.… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Osborne and Roger knowing that the wife of the former was a Frenchwoman, and, conscious of each other's knowledge, felt doubly awkward; while Molly… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“And besides, in the matter of friendship, I have observed that the disappointment here arises chiefly, not from liking our friends too well, or… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The first question sobbed out by his choking voice, oppressed with emotion, was-- "Where is she?" They led him to the room where his… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
