407 Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

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.

O que eles não poderiam entender é como seu coração sofria, o tempo todo, com um peso que não havia suspiro que remediasse ou aliviasse – e como o empenho constante das suas capacidades perceptivas fora o único meio de evitar que gritasse de dor

He spoke as if the answer were a matter of indifference to him. But it was not so. For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind--a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre.

A man is to me a higher and a completer being than a gentleman.