Best Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
- What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he… Always Thinking
- I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with… Done Sir
- Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all… All
- The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so. Believe
- In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married… Accounted
- . . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of… Agony
- I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't… Ever Saw
- But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. Future
- Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy. Degree
- He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it. Face
- There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. Affection
- One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I… Absorbed
- Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam? Elephant
- His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He… Bear
- Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love. Fullness
- I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art. Art
- I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me. Allow
- Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good… Afraid
- But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong. Ever Wrong
- He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in… Blamed
- Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others. Apt
- I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character. Character
- She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny. Any
- Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it. Act
- If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these… Acquaintance
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