“ She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can ma… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two. Elizabeth Gaskell
“ The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures, which she cared not in her laziness to have fully… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny. Elizabeth Gaskell
“ I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly p… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might havethought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome when brought intoevery-day life; it was not the sunshiny rest of a placid lake,… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might havethought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome when brought intoevery-day life; it was not the sunshiny rest of a placid lake,… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ It is always the savage lads, with their love of excitement, who head the riot - reckless to what bloodshed it may lead. Elizabeth Gaskell
“ At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each one grander than the last, till he ends in building one more magnificent than all, or w… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ Somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out the higher excellencies in another, and so they re-acted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmon… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace. Elizabeth Gaskell
“ Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. Elizabeth Gaskell
“ [Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a matter of course. They replied that it was impossible to make a heroine int… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ Come poor little heart! be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate. Elizabeth Gaskell
“ Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth. 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 furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age… Elizabeth Gaskell
