Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes about Children

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

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

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Mother, Children, Heart

Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1272, BookCaps Study Guides

But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Children, Wall, Believe

Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.641, Editora Landmark LTDA