I say, Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offence. Madam your wife and I did not 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 was not me.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: humor friendship
He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: new-things pretty-metaphors
But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: future
Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
Elizabeth GaskellHow easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
Elizabeth GaskellSometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: wisdom folly preference
I shall arm myself with a knife" said Mr. Hale: "the days of eating fruit so primitively as you describe are over with me. I must pare it and quarter it before I can enjoy it.
Elizabeth GaskellOne 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.
Tags: love
Aye, aye! good-natured, jolly, full of fun; there are a number of other names for the good qualities the devil leaves his children, as bait to catch gudgeons with. D'ye think folk could be led astray by one who was every way bad?
Elizabeth GaskellDid I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?
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