Elizabeth Gaskell Believe Quotations

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

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.

I wish I could love people as you do, Molly!' 'Don't you?' said the other, in surprise. 'No. A good number of people love me, I believe, or at least they think they do; but I never seem to care much for any one. I do believe I love you, little Molly, whom I have only known for ten days, better than any one.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.