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50 Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes & Sayings
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50 Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 29 September 1810. Died: 12 November 1865 |
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Sometimes
Likes
Foolish people
Wisdom
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Easy
Judge rightly
Judging wrongly
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I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me
Elizabeth Gaskell
Despise me
Understand me
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Wounded affection
Poignancy
Anger
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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.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Wise parent
Desire
Friend
Advisor
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Reason
Always
Means
Someone else
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But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Future
Met
Stern
Iron
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But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Cloud
Never comes
Horizon
Watch
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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
Wanted
Place
Worst time
Hope
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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
Dare not
Hope
Believe
Creature
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Thinking
Many time
Life
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Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Happy
Successful themselves
Misfortunes
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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Loyalty
Obedience
Wisdom
Arbitrary power
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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
Come
Poor
Little heart
Brave
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As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.
Elizabeth Gaskell
She realized
Grew
Thankful
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A girl in love will do a good deal.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Girl
In love
Good deal
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No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Loves me
Care for me
Mother
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Describe
My home
Charm
Words
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Bed
Arose
Morning
Came hope
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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
Shuddered away
Enduring love
Mean
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Nothing
Like
Eating
Equalizing men
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Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Similarity
Opinion
Perfection love
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I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Self indulgent
Worthy
Hatred
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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
Three lilies
Valley gathered
Person
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I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Wish
God
Ask him
Bless
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Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Every mile
Redolent
Associations
Missed
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It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Believe
Error
Infinitely
Hypocrite
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Trees
Gorgeous
Autumnal leafless
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Elizabeth Gaskell
One
May
Clogged
Honey
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If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Injure her
Await
Police man
God
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..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
Loved her
Return
Have
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Different
Men
Women
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She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Fierce pleasure
Idea
Unwelcome truths
Shape performance
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Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different, with a difference which she felt, on reflection, to be one that went low—deep down.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Oh dear
Loved
Difference
Reflection
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Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Love me
Sweet
Never
Be better
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But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Mind
Long directed
Rigid
Unable
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I think that if advice is good it's the best comfort.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Think
Advice
Good
Comfort
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All sorts of thoughts cross one's mind—it depends upon whether one gives them harbour and encouragement
Elizabeth Gaskell
Thought
Mind
Harbour
Encouragement
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If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends
Elizabeth Gaskell
Sorrowing
Wanting sympathy
Complicated trouble
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. . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Seemed
Prayed
God
Joy
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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.
Elizabeth Gaskell
First changes
Mystery
Time
Young
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Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Women
Unreasoning creatures
Love a man
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... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...
Elizabeth Gaskell
Patriotism
Consist
Hating
Other nations
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables in everything.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Little credulity
Life
Smoothly
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There is always a pleasure in unraveling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Pleasure
Unraveling a mystery
Gossamer clue
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The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Morning
More peace
Dissipate fear
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People admire talent, and talk about their admiration. But they value common sense without talking about it, and often without knowing it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
People admire
Talent
Admiration
Value
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But her little white thin hand lay in mine; and we understood each other without words.
Elizabeth Gaskell
White
Hand
Mine
Understood
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As far as one knows of heroines from history. I'm capable of a great jerk, an effort, and then a relaxation—but steady every-day goodness is beyond me. I must be a moral kangaroo!
Elizabeth Gaskell
Heroines
History
Capable
Effort
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Never
Known
Value
Thought
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