Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford (1851)

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

Elizabeth Gaskell
Their dress is very independent of fashion; as they observe, 'What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?' And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent: 'What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?'

Elizabeth Gaskell
Economy was always "elegant", and money-spending always "vulgar and ostentatious"; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.

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

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

Elizabeth Gaskell
It seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

Elizabeth Gaskell
But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

Elizabeth Gaskell
I'll make her a pudding, and a pudding she'll like, too... Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.

Elizabeth Gaskell