Elizabeth Gaskell

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#judgement #right #right

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love #jealousy

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#anger #betrayal #father-and-son #love #parent-and-child

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#else #got #i #listen #means

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

#action #advisor #become #cease #desire

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

#love

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine... ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love #love

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#justice

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole) ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#humor #lace #wardrobe #humor