Ellen Glasgow

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

— Ellen Glasgow

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

— Ellen Glasgow

Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

— Ellen Glasgow

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

— Ellen Glasgow

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

— Ellen Glasgow

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

— Ellen Glasgow

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

— Ellen Glasgow

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

— Ellen Glasgow

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it…

— Ellen Glasgow

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

— Ellen Glasgow

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian…

— Ellen Glasgow

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we…

— Ellen Glasgow

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

— Ellen Glasgow

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up…

— Ellen Glasgow

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and…

— Ellen Glasgow

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the…

— Ellen Glasgow

you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man…

— Ellen Glasgow

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me…

— Ellen Glasgow

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

— Ellen Glasgow

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Ellen Glasgow

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

— Ellen Glasgow

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about…

— Ellen Glasgow

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains,…

— Ellen Glasgow

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble…

— Ellen Glasgow

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

— Ellen Glasgow

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak…

— Ellen Glasgow

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

— Ellen Glasgow

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too…

— Ellen Glasgow

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

— Ellen Glasgow

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream…

— Ellen Glasgow

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

— Ellen Glasgow

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

— Ellen Glasgow

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright…

— Ellen Glasgow

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

— Ellen Glasgow

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

— Ellen Glasgow

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

— Ellen Glasgow

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to…

— Ellen Glasgow

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

— Ellen Glasgow

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature… I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

— Ellen Glasgow