36 Quotes About North-and-south
- Author Elizabeth Gaskell
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I do not know whether I am brave or not till I am tried...
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- Author Elizabeth Gaskell
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On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance. . .
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- Author Tabucci
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Do you still believe i public opinion? Well let me tell you public opinion is a gimmick thought up by the English and Americans, it's them who are shitting us up with this public opinion rot, of you'll excuse my language, we've never had their political system, we don't have their traditions, we don't even know what trade unions are, we're a southern people and we obey whoever shouts the loudest and gives the orders.
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- Author Elizabeth Gaskell
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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
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- Author Elizabeth Gaskell
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She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace.
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- Author Tony Horwitz
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For [Beth] Davis, Fitzgerald's [Louisiana] story carried another, broader message for Americans. 'If veterans could come together so soon after the War and forgive and forget, then surely we can overcome our differences,' she said. 'Old wounds were healed here, old barriers overcome. Seems like we should be able to do the same.
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- Author Elizabeth Gaskell
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My young lady, you've a pretty good temper of your own.
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- Author Elizabeth Gaskell
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He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.
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- Author Elizabeth Gaskell
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Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words
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