Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

“He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“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, North and South

“It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“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, North and South

“She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Keşke sana ne kadar yalnız olduğumu anlatabilsem. Burasının ne kadar soğuk ve sert olduğunu. Her yerde bir çelişki ve cefa var. Tanrı'nın bu yeri unuttuğunu düşünüyorum. Sanırım cehennemi gördüm ve o beyaz, cehennem sevgili Edith, kar beyazı..."

E. Gaskell - Kuzey ve Güney”
― Elizabeth Gaskell North And South

“Bu en kötü zamanda, onu 'benim' diye çağırma umudum olmasa bile
Margaret'ın büyüyüp kendisi olduğu yeri görmek istedim...”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“On Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Sylvia's Lovers'.
'Philip Hepuburn worships Sylvia Robson, and finds dishonour' Sylvia Robson worships Charley Kinraid, and finds disillusionment. Charley Kinraid worships himself, and finds a career in the Royal Navy and an heiress who agrees with him.”
― Lucinda Elliot

“Still he loved on, and on, ever more fondly.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

“La massa, quando è lasciata libera di decidere, sembra possedere discernimento sufficiente ad apprezzare il talento naturale di un oratore, ma è un peccato che non sappia sempre prendere in considerazione il carattere e i principi dell’oratore stesso.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

“I had not been aware that we had been holding a conversation, in which, I believe, the assistances of two persons is required. Why had not Mr Hutton sent to ask after my health the evening before, according to the custom of the place? I felt rather offended.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford And Mr. Harrison's Confessions