Quelques citations d'Elizabeth Gaskell:
"She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny."
"Rien de tel que l'acte de manger pour mettre les hommes à égalité. Mourir n'est rien en comparaison." / "Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it."
"Il ne la regardait jamais, et pourtant, l'évitement prudent de ses yeux indiquait que d'une certaine manière il savait exactement où, s'ils tombaient par hasard, ils se poseraient sur elle." / "He never looked at her, and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they fell by chance, they would rest on her."
"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly."
"I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me."
"Peu à peu, ils découvriront que les tyrans font des menteurs." / "By-and-by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars."
"I do not know whether I am brave or not till I am tried."
"Rien de tel que l'affection blessée pour rendre poignante la colère." / "There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger."
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Frances Hodgson Burnett est citée ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/150922/la-ou-tu-cultives-une-rose-un-chardon-ne-saurait-pousser
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