Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
