Quotations From ELIZABETH GASKELL

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• 1.

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), British novelist. Miss Matty's maid, Martha, in Cranford, ch. 14 (1853).
• 2.

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), British novelist. Mr. Gibson, in Wives and Daughters, ch. 54 (1866).
  
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  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 (1810-1865), British novelist. Squire Hamley, in Wives and Daughters, ch. 35 (1866). Addressing Mr. Gibson.
  
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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 (1810-1865), British novelist. Wives and Daughters, ch. 4 (1866). Of Mr. Gibson.
• 5.

  I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), British novelist. As quoted in Woman in Sexist Society, ch. 20, by Elaine Showalter (1971).
  
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  How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), British novelist. Cynthia, in Wives and Daughters, ch. 43 (1866). Of her misplaced attachment to Mr. Preston.
  
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  A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), British novelist. Miss Matty, in Cranford, ch. 11 (1853).
  
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  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 (1810-1865), British novelist. Squire Hamley, in Wives and Daughters, ch. 35 (1866). Said to Mr. Gibson.
  
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• 9.

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), British novelist. Squire Hamley, in Wives and Daughters, ch. 6 (1866).
  
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• 10.

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), British novelist. Mr. Hale, in North and South, ch. 15 (1855).
  
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