Time Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Tobacco and drink deaden the pangs of hunger, and make one forget the miserable home, the desolate future. They”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“...at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no!…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“He could not bear to see pain, or sorrow, or misery of any kind; and, if it came under his notice, he…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Looking back upon the year's accumulated heap of troubles, Margaret wondered how they had been borne. If she could have anticipated them,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“I take it that “gentleman” is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“it’s a long lane that has no turning,” “the weariest day draws to an end,” etc., seemed false and vain sayings, so…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Then letters came in but three times a week: indeed, in some places in Scotland where I have stayed when I was…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“The dull gray days of the preceding winter and spring, so uneventless and monotonous, seemed more associated with what she cared for…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“An old lady had an Alderney cow, which she looked upon as a daughter. …The whole town knew and kindly regarded Miss…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“He had grown accustomed to his wife by this time, and regarded silence on his own part as a great preservative against…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time(adolescense) is, insisting on the same unreasoning…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell