Quotes of Elizabeth Gaskell - somelinesforyou

“ Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ I’ll not listen to reason… reason always means what someone else has got to say. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love. But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly usednot on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her – while he was jealous of her – while he renounced her – he loved her sorely, in spite of himself. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ Take care. If you do not speak – I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Send me away at once, if I must go; – Margaret! – ”

- 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 ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sunrays. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine. ”

- 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 ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sunrays. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past! ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ It might, or it might not. There's two opinons to go settling that point. But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and not truth to me unless I know the meaning o' the words. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ By degrees they spoke of education , and the booklearning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ It might, or it might not. There's two opinons to go settling that point. But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and not truth to me unless I know the meaning o' the words. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ By degrees they spoke of education , and the booklearning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ There is many a young cockerel that will stand upon a dunghill and crow about his father, by way of making his own plumage to shine. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ There is many a young cockerel that will stand upon a dunghill and crow about his father, by way of making his own plumage to shine. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ There is many a young cockerel that will stand upon a dunghill and crow about his father, by way of making his own plumage to shine. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ I saw, I imitated, I survived! ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ Here was I asking a blessing and neglecting the means, which is a mockery. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through, — to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell
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