Elizabeth Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer who lived 1810 to 1865. Famous works by Mrs. Gaskell include “The Life of Charlotte Brontë” (1857), “Cranford (1851–53), and “Wives and Daughters” (1865).
This is a collection of quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Mary Barton
But I'm tired of this bustle. Everybody rushing over everybody, in their hurry to get rich.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: North and South
He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: North and South
It is more blessed to love than to be beloved.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Ruth
It isn't knowledge, it's ignorance that - as we've been beautifully told - is bliss.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Victorian Short Stories, Vol. 2
Nothing like the act of eating for equalising men. Dying is nothing to it.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: North and South
She's as sweet as a nut.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: North and South
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Wives and Daughters
Strawberries and cream are all kindness and no common sense, for they'll give him a horrid fit of indigestion.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Wives and Daughters
The cedar spreads his dark-green layers of shade.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Cranford
The grasshoppers sang all the summer, and starved all the winter.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Life of Charlotte Brontë
We farmers ought not to have much time for reading; yet somehow one can't help it.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Cranford
You are all striving for money. What do you want it for?
Elizabeth GaskellSource: North and South
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2