Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

#1. Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

Jimmy Cliff

#2. So you beat me... on chess... BRAVO... BRAVO let's say it was some kind a luck... but if we look what Elementary said about "Luck"... (Luck is for idiots...) so far... So let's say some how randomly you beat me... (LET"S DON"T GO DEEPER ABOUT RANDOM...!)

Deyth Banger

#3. Prince Charming was requesting my presence tonight.

Melissa Kantor

#4. The ladies of Cranford always dressed with chaste elegance and propriety ...

Elizabeth Gaskell

#5. I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.

Michael Caine

#6. For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

Fritz Todt

#7. Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#8. It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

Shane Claiborne

#9. I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

Lev Grossman

#10. See, Mary, how a good, innocent life makes friends all around. Confound it! I could make a good lesson out of it if I were a parson; but, as it is, I can't get a tail to my sentences - only I'm sure you feel what I want to say.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#11. I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.

Adolf Hitler

#12. I was one of those kids who always wrote.

Alice McDermott

#13. What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?" And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent, "What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?

Elizabeth Gaskell

#14. Pretending or keeping up appearances for the sake of staying married won't bring healing to serious marital wounds any more than a Band-Aid can stop arterial bleeding.

Leslie Vernick

#15. Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet.
I want to roar

Rachel Cohn

#16. He's hot. Too hot for me. Jeez, if he said the word sex to me I would probably pass-out.

LeeAnn Whitaker