Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

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

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

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. - Elizabeth Gaskell

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

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. - Elizabeth Gaskell

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. - Elizabeth Gaskell

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. - Elizabeth Gaskell

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

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

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