Best Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell (Top 10)
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Elizabeth Gaskell
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
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But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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,âto melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.
Elizabeth Gaskell
More Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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
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My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
Elizabeth Gaskell