Best Elizabeth Gaskell Lines
- Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have… Close
- Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days,… Bore
- ..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her… All
- How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today? Dress
- Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the… Besought
- On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read… Accomplished
- I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and… Action
- If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser… Afternoon
- Mr. Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. But he never went near… Amused
- He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept… Admission
- What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was… Comparison
- I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by… Abides
- That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations. All
- Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think… Ever Saw
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