Elizabeth Gaskell

Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#life

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#prettiness #self-esteem #beauty

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#pretty-metaphors #metaphor

He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#north-and-south #thornton #love

And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#solitude #love

I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love #mother-s-love #love

Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#north-and-south #thornton #love

Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart would do. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#north-and-south #infidelity