Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Children, Book, Eye

• There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mystery, Clue, Pleasure

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1045, BookCaps Study Guides

• He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Chance, Pleasure, Deny

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

• She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Ideas, Shapes, Fierce

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1124, Delphi Classics

• Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have taken pleasure in the idea that his great love might come in to comfort and console her; much the same kind of strange passionate pleasure which comes stinging through a mother's heart, when her drooping infant nestles close to her, and is dependent upon her for everything.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Taken, Heart

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1150, Delphi Classics

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