Ellen Glasgow

He who demands little gets it.

— Ellen Glasgow

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

— Ellen Glasgow

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

— Ellen Glasgow

Theories have nothing to do with life.

— Ellen Glasgow

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

— Ellen Glasgow

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

— Ellen Glasgow

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

— Ellen Glasgow

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

— Ellen Glasgow

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

— Ellen Glasgow

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

— Ellen Glasgow

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

— Ellen Glasgow

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

— Ellen Glasgow

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

— Ellen Glasgow

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

— Ellen Glasgow

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

— Ellen Glasgow

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

— Ellen Glasgow

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite…

— Ellen Glasgow

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

— Ellen Glasgow

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

— Ellen Glasgow

“Grandfather used to say that when a woman got ready to fall in love the man didn't matter, because she could drape…

— Ellen Glasgow

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be…

— Ellen Glasgow

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility…

— Ellen Glasgow

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you…

— Ellen Glasgow

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was…

— Ellen Glasgow

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet…

— Ellen Glasgow

. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in…

— Ellen Glasgow

1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an…

— Ellen Glasgow

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of…

— Ellen Glasgow

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think…

— Ellen Glasgow

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the…

— Ellen Glasgow

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an…

— Ellen Glasgow

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was…

— Ellen Glasgow

“Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely,…

— Ellen Glasgow

“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview…

— Ellen Glasgow

...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero;…

— Ellen Glasgow

When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another…

— Ellen Glasgow

Dignity is an anachronism.

— Ellen Glasgow

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

— Ellen Glasgow

Cruelty is the only sin.

— Ellen Glasgow