407 Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

I dare say there’s many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

By degrees they spoke of education, and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false.

But how would you have a wedding arranged?’ ‘Oh, I have never thought much about it; only I should like it to be a very fine summer morning; and I should like to walk to church through the shade of trees;.

But ne’er mind. We’re but where we was; and I’ll break stones on th’ road afore I let these little uns clem.

He had married a delicate fine London lady; it was one of those perplexing marriages of which one cannot understand the reasons.

Do you remember, love?

But these factory people, who on earth wears cotton that can afford linen?

I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth – no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me – for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.

A man,” as one of them observed to me once, “is so in the way in the house!