407 Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

We were none of us musical, though Miss Jenkyns beat time, out of time, by way of appearing to be so.

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. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before ...

Bombazine would have shown a deeper sense of her loss.