Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Quotes to Explore

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

Natalie Gulbis
- Father
- Game
- Involved
In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

Sabine Baring-Gould
- Eyes
- Hair
- Blue
It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.

Sam Hunt
- Music
- Country
- Model
Everything begins with an idea.

Earl Nightingale
- Idea
- Everything
- Begins
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Vidal Sassoon
- Mother
- Feeling
- Myself
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Oriana Fallaci
- Up
- Culture
- Period