Quotes by Gaskell, Elizabeth

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wif >>

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. >>

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness go >>

Quotations about Assassination

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. >>

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victi >>

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than al >>

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.

Gaskell, Elizabeth