“ 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
“ It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. 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
