Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes - Page 2

• La lealtad y la obediencia a la sabiduría y a la justicia están bien; pero aún lo está más desafiar al poder arbitrario, injusta y cruelmente utilizado, no en beneficio propio, sino en el de otros más indefensos.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Lealtad, Justicia, Arbitrariedad

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). "The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)", p.1442, BookCaps Study Guides.

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• Th' longest lane will have a turning.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Hope, Lanes

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.110, Delphi Classics

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• Nunca he escrito una biografía, y no sé exactamente cómo hacerlo; como ve, tengo que ser preciso y ceñirme a los hechos, algo muy difícil para un escritor de ficción.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Escritura, Ficción, Biografías

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2009). "The Life of Charlotte Brontë", p.10, OUP Oxford

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• One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love. But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Expression, Looks, Too Much

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

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• People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Self Esteem, Believe, Self Confidence

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2870, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Degrees, Lovers, Ready

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1456, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Morning, Views, Bed

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1682, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Jealous, Names, Hearing

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1210, Delphi Classics

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Pain, Miserable, Bodily Pain

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1524, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Un velo de suave niebla opaca oscurecía, pero no ocultaba, todos los objetos, dándoles un tono lila, pues el sol aún no se había puesto del todo; un petirrojo cantaba... Las hojas estaban más hermosas que nunca; el primer toque de escarcha las derribaría al suelo. Ya una o dos flotaban constantemente hacia abajo, ámbar y doradas bajo los rayos del sol.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Otoño, Dos, Dar

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). "Norte e Sul: Norte e Sul: Edição bilíngue português - inglês", p.544, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• Mi corazón ardía de indignación y dolor; no podíamos pensar en otra cosa. Durante toda la noche sólo pudimos dormir a ratos, despertándonos continuamente con la sensación de una gran conmoción y dolor. Todo el mundo siente lo mismo. Nunca conocí un sentimiento tan universal.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Duelo, Sueño, Corazón

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• Nadie me quiere, - nadie se preocupa por mí, excepto tú, madre.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Madre, Cuidado, A Nadie Le Importa

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). "Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)", p.1093, Delphi Classics.

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• I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

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  Believe, Care, Dare

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

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• She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Father, Fall, Ornaments

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.966, Delphi Classics

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• He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Body, Flesh, Way

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.39, Elizabeth Gaskell

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• Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Morning, Cake, Tea

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• Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Smile, Father, Character

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1419, BookCaps Study Guides

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Father, Together, Harm

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1545, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Prefiero tener dos o tres lirios del valle recogidos para mí por una persona que me gusta, que el ramo más caro que se pueda comprar.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Flower, Two, Three

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

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• On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Night, Romance, Brave

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1287, Delphi Classics

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Evil, Judging, Judgement

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2814, BookCaps Study Guides

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• What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

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  Pensar, Gente, Mayo

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1681, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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

  Heart, Bravery, Want

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1182, Delphi Classics

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• Si te atreves a herirla en lo más mínimo, te esperaré donde ningún policía pueda interponerse. Y Dios juzgará entre nosotros dos.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Two, Judging, Steps

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1022, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Suffering, Triumph, Done

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.955, Delphi Classics

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