407 Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

A man is so in the way in the house.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside; Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.