Gaskell North And South Quotes

#1. If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends

Elizabeth Gaskell

#2. Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#3. The Bible appears to be the most revered book never read.

Timothy Beal

#4. She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#5. He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

Elizabeth Gaskell

#6. I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#7. It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#8. Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I must go; -Margaret!-

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. The idea that literary theorists killed poetry dead because with their shrivelled hearts and swollen brains they are incapable of spotting a metaphor, let alone a tender feeling, is on of the more obtuse critical platitudes of our time.

Terry Eagleton

#10. Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words

Elizabeth Gaskell

#11. Look back. Look back at me.
Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#12. The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#13. We master the technique of our jobs.

Steven Pressfield

#14. It is always the savage lads, with their love of excitement, who head the riot - reckless to what bloodshed it may lead.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#15. Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#16. Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#17. I may not believe what you believe but I do believe in your right to believe it.

Joe Beaton

#18. 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

#19. North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

#21. Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

Anthony Bourdain

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

#23. Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.

John Flavel

#24. If only I were a magician who could make things possible. I'd give objects the gift of defiance: banisters, gramaphones, guns, the napes of necks, braided hair.

Sasa Stanisic

#25. Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.

Jaggi Vasudev