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“Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“With a bound, the sun of a molten fiery red cam above the horizon, and immediately thousands of little birds sang out for joy, and a soft chorus of mysterious, glad murmurs came forth from the earth; the low whispering wind left its hiding-place among the clefts and hollows of the hills, and wandered among the rustling herbs and trees, waking the flower-buds to the life of another day.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“It is to God you answer, not to men. The shame of having your sin known to the world, should be as nothing to the shame you felt at having sinned. We have dreaded men too much, and God too little, in the course we have taken.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understand more clearly the circumstances with contributed to the formation of character. The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities. Therefore it is well to know what were the chains of daily domestic habit which were the natural leading-strings of our forefathers before they learnt to go alone.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“…everything may be done in a right way or a wrong; the right way is to do it as well as we can, as in God’s sight; the wrong is to do it in a self-seeking spirit, which either leads us to neglect it to follow out some device of our own before and after the doing.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Sally, do you think God has put us into the world just to be selfish, and do nothing but see after our own souls? or to help one another with heart and hand, as Christ did to all who wanted help?”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“…he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“People may talk as they will about the little respect that is paid to virtue, unaccompanied by the outward accidents of wealth or station; but I rather think it will be found that, in the long run, true and simple virtue always has its proportionate reward in the respect and reverence of every one whose esteem is worth having. To be sure, it is not rewarded after the way of the world as mere worldly possessions are, with low obeisance and lip-service; but all the better and more noble qualities in the hearts of others make ready and go forth to meet it on its approach, provided only it be pure, simple, and unconscious of its own existence.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“This household had many failings: they were but human, and, with all their loving desire to bring their lives into harmony with the will of God, they often erred and fell short; but, somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out higher excellences in another, and so they reacted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmony and peace.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Jemima was not pretty, the flatness and shortness of her face made her almost plain; yet most people looked twice at her expressive countenance, at the eyes which flamed or melted at every trifle, at the rich colour which came at every expressed emotion into her usually sallow face, at the faultless teeth which made her smile like a sunbeam.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“...somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out the higher excellencies in another, and so they re-acted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmony and peace.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, that into a region so lovely no bale or woe could enter, but would be charmed away and disappear before the sight of the glorious guardian mountains. Now she knew the truth, that earth has no barrier which avails against agony.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“No tenemos derecho a comparar el valor de una vida humana con otra.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Come, begin with your objections. You're not a woman if you have not a whole bag-full of them ready to turn down any reasonable proposal.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“They too would grow up, and suffer; though now they played, regardless of their doom.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Hay siempre algo de irritante en el hecho de que alguien nos diga que en otro momento veremos las cosas con más claridad, con más esperanza. Esto implica que nuestros sentimientos actuales están ofuscados y que un simple espectador tiene una visión más nítida y puede vislumbrar nuestro futuro mejor que nosotros mismos.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“El ocaso la calmó más de lo que lo hubiera hecho cualquier palabra, por más sabia y tierna que fuera. Incluso pareció darle fuerza y coraje. No supo cómo ni por qué, pero así fue.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Sorprendió a la señorita Bradshaw por sorpresa preguntándole si la había molestado de alguna manera para provocar un cambio semejante. Es muy triste que una amistad se enfríe hasta el punto de considerar necesaria una pregunta similar.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“- ¿Qué significaba este terrible demonio en su corazón? - se preguntó el mejor de los ángeles de Jemimah - ¿Estaba acaso poseída? ¿No era este odio virulento el que había causado tantos crímenes en el pasado? ¿Aquel odio hacia las virtudes que nuestro amor herido podía suscitar? ¿La antigua cólera que se adueñó del corazón del hermoso mayor, que finalmente le condujo al asesinato del buen Abel, cuando el mundo era aún tan joven?
- ¡Oh, Dios! ¡Ayúdame! No pensaba que podía llegar a ser tan malvada
Había dado un terrible vistazo en el oscuro y espantoso abismo del mal que anidaba en su corazón. Luchó con el demonio, pero este no desapareció. Debía decidir, en ese momento de resentimiento, si renunciaba o no a él.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Admiraba la inflexible integridad - aquella especie de triunfo de sus principios- que el señor Bradshaw demostraba en todo momento, Se pregunta cómo era posible que Jemimah no se diera cuenta de la satisfacción que provocaba conducir una vida en la que cada acto se realizaba de acuerdo a al obediencia de una ley eterna.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Le gustaba ejecutar sus capacidades intelectuales, así como la idea de saber que existía aún una infinita cantidad de cosas que ignoraba, porque aprender era un gran gozo para ella.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“No propiamente incorrecto, pero tampoco del todo acertado.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“Para Ruth solo había un invierno frío y amargo, incluso para aquellos pobres mendigos era una estación casi mortal. Pero para la señora Dumcombe y sus iguales era el periodo alegre y feliz en el que aún brotaban las flores, crepitaban los fuegos y la prosperidad y el desahogo formaban parte de sus vidas como regalo de las hadas ¿Qué sabían ellos del significado de aquella palabra, tan horrible para los pobres? ¿Qué era el invierno para ellos?”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“No advertía la falsedad de su proceder; era una experta en aquella especie de falacia con la que las personas se persuaden a sí mismas de que aquello que quieren hacer es lo justo.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“It was all my money; it was not my all," replied Mr Benson”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

“The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes â€� when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth