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Men Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell
- I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as…
- To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
- Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
- A man is so in the way in the house.
- Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have…
- But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with…
- 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…
- I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.
- Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.
- Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him…
- And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She…
- How different men were to women!
- Yes! He knew how she would love. He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Her soul…
- God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon…
- How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no! I owe it…
- Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them…
- 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…
- He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept…
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