Elizabeth Gaskell Short Quotes

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What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils...

Elizabeth Gaskell
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Them lawyers is no better than a sponge for sucking up money.

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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

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

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

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

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There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

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I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

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I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

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I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

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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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He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.

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It was his general plan to repress emotion by not showing the sympathy he felt.

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

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Like all energetic people, the more he had to do the more time he seemed to find.

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I'll not listen to reason…Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

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

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

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Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier tomorrow.

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I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

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

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I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

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Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

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Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

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

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

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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

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