Books Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“Plover’s words were like dried flowers, stiff and crumbling, crushed flat between pages, when we’d had the living, blooming blossoms all around”

— Lev Grossman

“If a flower you covet, straightway you are told it is another's.”

— August Strindberg

“  "Friendship is no plant of hasty growth,    Though planted in esteem's deep-fixed soil,    The gradual culture of kind intercourse    Must bring it to perfection.”

— Isabella Mary Beeton

“But while admiring my neighbour, I don't think I shall ever try to follow in her steps, my talents not being of the energetic…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Make your books your companions, let your cases and shelves be your pleasure grounds and gardens. Bask in their paradise, gather their fruit, pluck…

— Samuel ibn Tibbon

“I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens to us.”

— Kate Bernheimer

“I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.”

— John Bartlett

“You never look at these flowers; therefore they become stale to you. If you would only look into them, then your reading and writing…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration…

— August Strindberg

“Many times, while looking at the flowers, unknowingly, we may have transcended ourselves and have become a part of them, at least for a…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“CHAPTER XV. IN WHICH IS GIVEN A FAITHFUL PORTRAITURE OF TWO DISTINGUISHED PERSONS; AND AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF A PUBLIC BREAKFAST IN THEIR HOUSE…

— Charles Dickens