Gaskell North Quotes

#1. 201. What would you do with your time if money were of no concern?

Lisa McKay

#2. She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

Erica Jong

#3. Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Robin McKinley

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. A wiry crewman named Kobis sat at the end of a couch, reading a book in the low light, clearly relishing the closest thing he ever found to peace and quiet

V.E Schwab

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad.

James Caan

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

#17. A fool is made more of a fool, when their mouth is more open than their mind.

Anthony Liccione

#18. Does it matter that the sausages are local? I'm just going to eat them, not make friends and go to the cinema with them.

Louise Rennison

#19. 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

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

#21. 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

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

#24. Tonight the light of love is in your eyes,
But will you love me tomorrow?

Carole King

#25. 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