"Cranford" Quotes
A charming depiction of small-town life in nineteenth-century England, filled with endearing characters and delightful social observations.
classics | 352 pages | Published in 1853
Quotes
A lady always knows when to leave.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
It is amazing how much can be borne when there is no help or sympathy.
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
We all have our own little vanities, which a friend must humor and yet laugh at a little.
It is always wisest to receive favors and assistance with as good grace as (and even with greater gratitude than) if one had deserved them.
There is much distress and perplexity hidden beneath the waves of human existence.
