"Take care. If you do not speak – I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Send me away at once, if I must go; – Margaret! –"

Elizabeth Gaskell Literature See all quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell →

HuggingFace jstet/quotes-500k

React to this quote

More by Elizabeth Gaskell

See all

“That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.”

“Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.”

“I'll not listen to reason…Reason always means what someone else has got to say.”

“It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.”

“A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.”

“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.”

Resonant Thoughts

"One of my only regrets is that I was never able to fall in love"

— Dylann Roof

Politics1994

#love

"Love is a never ending smile."

— Ronnie James Dio

Music1942–2010

#love

"The claim by the IPCC that an imposed climate forcing can work through the parameterizations involved in the atmospheric, land, ocean and continental ice sheet components of the climate model to creat…"

— Roger A. Pielke

Mathematics1946

#science

"I never lived, that I remember, what you call a common natural day. All my days are touched by the supernatural, for I feel the pressure of hidden causes, and the presence, sometimes the communion, of…"

— Margaret Fuller

Journalism1810–1850

#time