Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

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

Watch, Cloud, Horizon

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

Judge, Evil, After

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

Thinking, May, Minds

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

Wisdom, Wise, Sometimes

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
Elizabeth Gaskell

Great, Heart, Sleep

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

Life, Through, Credulity

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Elizabeth Gaskell

Wise, Friend, Become

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

Someone, Else, Reason

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

Time, Wife, Her

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

Girl, Wife, Different

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Biography

Nationality: British

Born: September 29, 1810

Died: November 12, 1865

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