Cranford Quotes

“...for if she had two characteristics in her natural state of health, they were a facility of eating and sleeping. If she could neither eat nor sleep, she must be indeed out of spirits and out of Health.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

“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

“No, pussy!’ said I, ‘if you have any conscience you ought not to expect that!”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

“My father once made us,” she began, “keep a diary, in two columns; on one side we were to put down in the morning what we thought would be the course and events of the coming day, and at night we were to put down on the other side what really had happened.  It would be to some people rather a sad way of telling their lives,” (a tear dropped upon my hand at these words)—“I don’t mean that mine has been sad, only so very different to what I expected.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford