Classics Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“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

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

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

“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

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

“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

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

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

“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