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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1810
Born: September 29
Died: 1865
Died: January 12
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England
Author of Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
Mrs. Gaskell
née Stevenson
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He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.
Elizabeth Gaskell
I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.
Elizabeth Gaskell
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
Elizabeth Gaskell
But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake! (Ms. Pole)
Elizabeth Gaskell
..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.
Elizabeth Gaskell
The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
Elizabeth Gaskell
I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. 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
And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
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
A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?
Elizabeth Gaskell
I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words
Elizabeth Gaskell
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.
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
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Waiting is far more difficult than doing.
Elizabeth Gaskell
