407 Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

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

She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace.

He could not bear to see pain, or sorrow, or misery of any kind; and, if it came under his notice, he was never easy till he had relieved it, for the time, at any rate. But he was afraid of being made uncomfortable; so, if he possibly could, he would avoid seeing any one who was ill or unhappy; and he did not thank any one for telling him about them.

My young lady, you've a pretty good temper of your own.

..bid her beware of French principles, which had led the French to cut off their king’s and queen’s heads.

Fools will always break out o' bounds.

One gives people in grief their own way.

Nadie me ama, sólo me quieres tú, madre

About Emily : "she never showed regard to any human creature; all her love was reserved for animals".