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Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Some wishes crossed my mind and dimly cheered it, And one or two poor melancholy pleasures, Each in the pale unwarming light of hope, Silvering its flimsy wing, flew silent by – Moths in the moonbeam!′ COLERIDGE.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “In short, Miss Hale, it is very evident that your informant found a pretty ready listener to all the slander he chose to utter against the masters,′ said Mr. Thornton, in an offended tone.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Only half of Roger’s success was owing to his mental powers; the other half was owing to his perfect health, which enabled him to work harder and more continuously than most men without suffering. He said that in all his experience he had never known any one with an equal capacity for mental labour; and that he could come again with a fresh appetite to his studies after shorter intervals of rest than most.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “A more proud, disagreeable girl I never saw. Even her great beauty is blotted out of one’s memory by her scornful ways.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Do you remember, love?”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Come what will, I cannot, when I write, think always of myself and of what is elegant and charming in femininity; it is not on those terms, or with such ideas, I ever took pen in hand: and if it is only on such terms my writing will be tolerated, I shall pass away from the public and trouble it no more. Out of obscurity I came, to obscurity I can easily return.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Where are the sounds that swam along The buoyant air when I was young? The last vibration now is o’er, And they who listened are no more; Ah! let me close my eyes and dream. – W. S. Landor.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “She must just submit, like many another, to be misunderstood;.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Never mind what she was; look at what she is!”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “My precept is, ‘Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something.’” “Not excluding mischief,” said Margaret, smiling faintly through her tears. “By no means. What I do exclude is the remorse afterwards.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Set a beggar on horseback, and he’ll ride to the devil,“ –.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “And she went slowly and majestically out of the room. But when she got into her own, she locked the door, and sate down to cry unwonted tears.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “So much was understood through eyes that could not be put into words.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Ah! relevons-nous, et quittons-la pour jamais, reclamons la misericorde de Dieu, et esperons en elle qu’elle nous assistera pour desormais estre plus fermes; et remettons-nous au chemin de l’humilite. Courage, soyons meshuy sur nos gardes, Dieu nous aydera.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “It was towards the end of February, in that year, and a bitter black frost had lasted for many weeks. The keen east wind had long since swept the streets clean, though in a gusty day the dust would rise like pounded ice, and make people’s faces quite smart with the cold force with which it blew against them. Houses, sky, people, and everything looked as if a gigantic brush had washed them all over with a dark shade of Indian ink.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “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.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Thou’d best not put that nonsense i’ the girl’s head I can tell thee; I’d rather see her earning her bread by the sweat of brow, as the Bible tells her she should do, ay, though she never got butter to her bread, than be like a do-nothing lady, worrying shopmen all morning, and screeching at her pianny all afternoon, and going to bed without having done a good turn to any one of God’s creatures but herself.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “I remember Miss Bronte once telling me that it was a saying round about Haworth, “Keep a stone in thy pocket seven year; turn it, and keep it seven year longer, that it may be ever ready to thine hand when thine enemy draws near.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “There’s iron, they say, in all our blood, And a grain or two perhaps is good; But his, he makes me harshly feel, Has got a little too much of steel.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “That doubt and trouble, fear and pain, And anguish, all, are shadows vain, That death itself shall not remain; That weary deserts we may tread, A dreary labyrinth may thread, Thro’ dark ways underground be led; Yet, if we will one Guide obey, The dreariest path, the darkest way Shall issue out in heavenly day; And we, on divers shores now cast, Shall meet, our perilous voyage past, All in our Father’s house at last!’ R. C. TRENCH.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “No tenemos derecho a comparar el valor de una vida humana con otra.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “What does it matter whether her husband dines in a dress–coat, or a market–coat, provided there be worth, and honesty, and a clean shirt underneath?”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Fancy is three parts o’ love.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “If I had any prejudices, the gift of such delicious fruit as this would melt them all away.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “They did not speak much more, but thridded their way through many a bosky dell, whose soft green influence could not charm away the shock and the pain in Margaret’s heart, caused by the recital of such cruelty; a recital too, the manner of which betrayed such utter want of imagination, and therefore of any sympathy with the suffering animal.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “We hate to have laws made for us at a distance. We wish people would allow us to right ourselves, instead of continually meddling, with their imperfect legislation. We stand up for self-government, and oppose centralization.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “He spoke two short sentences in a low voice, watching her all the time; for the pupils of her eyes dilated into a black horror, and the whiteness of her complexion became livid. He ceased speaking.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “You must never trifle with the love of an honest man. You don’t know what pain you may give.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Errands of mercy – errands of sin – did you ever think where all the thousands of people you daily meet are bound?”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “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. He dreamt of her; he dreamt she came dancing towards him with outspread arms, and with a lightness and gaiety which made him loathe her, even while it allured him.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “They were on those happy terms where silence is permissible, and where efforts to act against the prevailing mood of the mind are not required.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “It is as well: a promise given is a fetter to the giver. But a promise is not given when it has not been received.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “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 time for enjoyment, but as a time for action and exertion. Our glory and our beauty arise out of our inward strength, which makes us victorious over material resistance, and over greater difficulties still.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “We are the trees whom shaking fastens more. – George Herbert.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “There are blasphemous actions as well as blasphemous words: all unloving, cruel deeds, are acted blasphemy.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Beginning with scarlet fever, I’m afraid. It’s well you left when you did, Molly. You’ve never had it. We must stop up all intercourse with the Hall for a time. If there’s one illness I dread, it is this.′ ‘But you go and come back to us, papa.’ ‘Yes. But I always take plenty of precautions. However, no need to talk about risks that lie in the way of one’s duty. It is unnecessary risks that we must avoid.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Miserably disturbed!′ that is not strong enough. He was haunted by the remembrance of the handsome young man, with whom she stood in an attitude of such familiar confidence; and the remembrance shot through him like an agony, till it made him clench his hands tight in order to subdue the pain.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “I sometimes think there’s two sides to the commandment; and that we may say, ‘Let others do unto you, as you would do unto them,’ for pride often prevents our giving others a great deal of pleasure, in not letting them be kind, when their hearts are longing to help; and when we ourselves should wish to do just the same, if we were in their place.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Sometimes I used to hear a farmer speaking sharp and loud to his servants; but it was so far away that it only reminded me pleasantly that other people were hard at work in some distant place, while I just sat on the heather and did nothing.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “I shall not be at home until the afternoon, my dear! But I hope you will not find it dull. I don’t think you will, for you are something like me, my love – never less alone than when alone, as one of the great authors has justly expressed it.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Never had any one more than Cynthia the power spoken of by Goldsmith when he wrote, – He threw off his friends like a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he liked he could whistle them back.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Unos instantes pueden cambiar nuestra forma de ser para toda la vida y.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Much of this nervous dread of encountering strangers I ascribed to the idea of her personal ugliness, which had been strongly impressed upon her imagination early in life, and which she exaggerated to herself in a remarkable manner. “I notice,” said she, “that after a stranger has once looked at my face, he is careful not to let his eyes wander to that part of the room again!” A more untrue idea never entered into any one’s head.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “I read for the same reason that I ate or drank; because it was a real craving of nature. I wrote on the same principle as I spoke – out of the impulse and feelings of the mind; nor could I help it, for what came, came out, and there was the end of it. For as to self–conceit, that could not receive food from flattery, since to this hour, not half a dozen people in the world know that I have ever penned a line.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “All beautiful scriptures came into her mind. ‘They rest from their labours.’ ‘The weary are at rest.’ ‘He giveth His beloved sleep.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “The loss of what we possess nearest and dearest to us in this world, produces an effect upon the character we search out what we have yet left that can support, and, when found, we cling to it with a hold of new–strung tenacity.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “I would do my best,′ said Margaret rather pale. ‘I do not know whether I am brave or not till I am tried; but I am afraid I should be a coward.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “Man of action as he was, busy in the world’s great battle, there was a deeper religion binding him to God in his heart, in spite of his strong wilfulness, through all his mistakes, than Mr. Hale had ever dreamed.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “I don’t think I ever saw her out of temper; but then I’m not sure if she takes things keenly to heart, and a certain obtuseness of feeling goes a great way towards a character for good temper, I’ve observed.”
Elizabeth Gaskell Quote: “As she realised what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was. They were at the lowest now; they could not be worse.”
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