Quotes by : Elizabeth Gaskell

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

He spoke as if the answer were a matter of indifference to him. But it was not so. For all his pain,....

She disliked him more for having mastered her inner will. How dared he say that he would love her still,....

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government and I am twice as much in favour of it....

What do you expect—not indifference or ingratitude?’ (-Miss Benson) ‘It is better not to expect....

It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a....

My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.

You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some....

Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never....