Elizabeth Gaskell Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Elizabeth Gaskell:

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

Elizabeth Gaskell

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

Elizabeth Gaskell

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Elizabeth Gaskell

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Elizabeth Gaskell

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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 I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

Elizabeth Gaskell

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Elizabeth Gaskell