Elizabeth Gaskell: Citations en anglais
“Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.”
Mary Barton, ch. 37.
“It was his general plan to repress emotion by not showing the sympathy he felt.”
Wives and Daughters, ch. 11
Wives and Daughters
“I'll not listen to reason…Reason always means what someone else has got to say.”
Source: Cranford (1851–3), Ch. 14
“That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.”
Sylvia's Lovers, ch. 1 (1863)
“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.”
Source: Cranford (1851–3), Ch. 11
Wives and Daughters, ch. 50 (1864-5)
Wives and Daughters