I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. Elizabeth Gaskell More Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell More Quotes From Elizabeth Gaskell Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. Elizabeth Gaskell wisdomstupidwise He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. Elizabeth Gaskell bodyfleshway 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 self-confidenceself-esteembelieve It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. Elizabeth Gaskell errorshypocritebelieve What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong. Elizabeth Gaskell maypeoplethinking Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others. Elizabeth Gaskell effectsexercisetrying The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march? Elizabeth Gaskell triumphdonesuffering A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. Elizabeth Gaskell womenliteraturelittles Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I must go; -Margaret!- Elizabeth Gaskell carespeakway 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 enduring-lovemenmean I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit. Elizabeth Gaskell childhoodsorrowage Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid. Elizabeth Gaskell neverthelesssplendid Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before. Elizabeth Gaskell inclinationopportunity It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear. Elizabeth Gaskell atmosphereluxurypoverty She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at first, and now standing behind her father, he had overlooked her in his haste. As if he did not feel the consciousness of her presence all over, though his eyes had never rested on her! Elizabeth Gaskell awkwardeyefather It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell) Elizabeth Gaskell bellsmatterfirsts Oh yes!' and suddenly the wintry frost-bound look of care had left Mr. Thornton's face, as if some soft summer gale had blown all anxiety away from his mind; and, though his mouth was as much compressed as before, his eyes smiled out benignly on his questioner. Elizabeth Gaskell anxietyeyesummer What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils. Elizabeth Gaskell anxietyusewaiting As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was. Elizabeth Gaskell being-thankfulgrewmight Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. Elizabeth Gaskell richtrialsthinking
