407 Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

I don't know that you would ever like him, or think him agreeable, Margaret. He is not a lady's man.' Margaret wreathed her throat in a scornful curve.

Never mind what she was; look at what she is!

No tenemos derecho a comparar el valor de una vida humana con otra.

North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.

So much was understood through eyes that could not be put into words.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

I do not know whether I am brave or not till I am tried...

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables in everything.

If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowing what she might not have become. But Dixon was too loyal to desert her in her affliction and downfall (alias her married life).