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Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell Love North And South Passion

He spoke as if the answer were a matter of indifference to him. But it was not so. For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind--a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell John Thornton North And South Passion

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives -- envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do ... They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the ... jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it -- then you know. The south has got you.

~ Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Clichés Culture North North And South Northerners Perceptions Prejudice Regions Society South Southerners Stereotypes Superiority

The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures, which she cared not in her laziness to have fully explained before they passed away; the stroll down to the beach to breathe the sea-air, soft and warm on the sandy shore even at the end of November; the great long misty sea-line touching the tender-coloured sky; the white sail of a distant boat turning silver in some pale sunbeam: - it seemed as if she could dream her life away in such luxury of pensiveness, in which she made her present all in all, from not daring to think of the past, or wishing to contemplate the future.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell Beach Calm Laziness Lazy Lazy Day Meditation Meditative North And South Peace

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell Crying North And South Pride Resiliance Sadness

Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her, nor did she dislike it, it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell Admiration France Funny History Louis Xiv North And South Pride Respect Reverence

The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell Come Rain Or Shine Determination North And South Resilience Resistance

God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell Inspirational Life Lesson North And South Religious

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell Autumn Beauty Death Dusk Fall Garden Gardens North And South Outside Seasons Time Winter

I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

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