Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

British - Novelist September 29, 1810 - November 12, 1865

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

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

Horizon, Cloud, Watch, Never, Quarter

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

Life, Through, Little, Very, 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, Action, Parent, Desire

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

Listen, Say, Someone, Always, Reason

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

Heart, Great, Grief, Sleep, Night, Think

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, Think, Me, Silly, She

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

People, Thinking, World, Believe, Minds

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

Wisdom, Wise, People, Better, Sometimes

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

Evil, Judge, Easy, Judging, How, After

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

Man, Girl, Wife, Different, Stepmother

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