Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

Why, they took nouns that were signs of things which gave evidence of wealth,—housekeepers, under-gardeners, extent of glass, valuable lace, diamonds, and all such things; and each one formed her spee...

Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection.

Begin to understand now what heaven must be—and, oh! the grandeur and repose of the words—The same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Everlasting! From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. That

. . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Correspondence, which bears much the same relation to personal intercourse that the books of dried plats I sometimes see do to the living and fresh flowers in the lanes and meadows.

You're one of th'Union, Job?''Ay! I'm one, sure enough; but I'm but a sleeping partner in the concern. I were obliged to become a member for peace, else I don't go along with 'em. Yo see they think th...

All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that...

And flowering all the year round, especially at Christmas—make your picture complete,' said he. 'No,

As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must subdue her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. When she could employ herself in fiction, all was...

Bear up, brave heart!

But I belong to Teutonic blood; it is little mingled in this part of England to what it is in others; we retain much of their language; we retain more of their spirit; we do not look upon life as a ti...

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the br...

But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as they have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains wh...

But when she got into her own, she locked the door, and sate down to cry unwonted tears.

But, east or west wind, I suppose this man comes.''Oh, mamma, that shows you never saw Mr. Thornton. He looks like a person who would enjoy battling with every adverse thing he could meet with—enemies...

But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests,

Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted itself in sparkle and crackle. They...

For never any thing can be amiss  When simpleness and duty tender it.' MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

For sure, th' world is in a confusion that passes me or any other man to understand; it needs fettling, and who's to fettle it, if it's as yon folks say, and there's nought but what we see?