Gaskell Cranford Quotes & Sayings

The ladies of Cranford always dressed with chaste elegance and propriety ... — Elizabeth Gaskell

No one suffers long, save by his own fault. If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him? — Michel De Montaigne

You don't always have to figure it out on your own. Sometimes it's okay to listen to someone who has more experience. — Charles F. Glassman

I should have hoped to have trained him, my lady, to understand the rules of discretion."
"Trained! Train a barn-door fowl to be a pheasant, Mr. Horner! That would be the easier task. But you did right to speak of discretion rather than honour. Discretion looks to the consequences of actions - honour looks to the action itself, and is an instinct rather than a virtue. After all, it is possible you might have trained him to be discreet. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here. — Graham Greene

Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC [Project for the New American Century] Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full well that my son, my family, this nation, and this world were betrayed by George [W.] Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11. — Cindy Sheehan

Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show runs for a while, I'm sorry, but it gets annoying when it starts to talk. You get a child actor in there, and unless that child actor is freakin' awesome, it's going to be annoying. — Eliza Coupe

I've always embraced everything and been open-minded about what's ahead. — Donna Air

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. — Elizabeth Gaskell

What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?" And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent, "What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us? — Elizabeth Gaskell

Do not believe hastily. — Ovid

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded. — William Joyce

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I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with. — Sylvia Browne

Be a voice for the voiceless y'all. This world needs more love and hope! — Taylor York

As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years. — Marc Maron

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us. — David Seamands

See, Mary, how a good, innocent life makes friends all around. Confound it! I could make a good lesson out of it if I were a parson; but, as it is, I can't get a tail to my sentences - only I'm sure you feel what I want to say. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time! — Julia Child

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you. — Rod Stewart