Famous Quotes / Elizabeth Gaskell
11 Quotations by Elizabeth Gaskell
- 1. A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
- 2. A man is so in the way in the house.
- 3. A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when ...
- 4. He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili ...
- 5. How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
- 6. I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
- 7. 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 ...
- 8. My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long ...
- 9. People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other ...
- 10. Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
- 11. To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!