I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
"Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell", née "Stevenson", often referred to simply as "Mrs Gaskell", was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social history/social historians as well as lovers of literature. Gaskell was also the first to write a biography of Charlotte Bronte, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, which was published in 1857.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Elizabeth Gaskell on Wikipedia.The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
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.
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.
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
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.
We were none of us musical, though Miss Jenkyns beat time, out of time, by way of appearing to be so.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Bombazine would have shown a deeper sense of her loss.
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