“ It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. 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
“ 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
“ Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more… Susan Sontag
“ 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
“ 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
“ He spoke as if the answer were a matter of indifference to him. But it was not so. For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gen… Elizabeth Gaskell
