Ellen Glasgow

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

— Ellen Glasgow

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen…

— 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

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

— Ellen Glasgow

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

— Ellen Glasgow

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing,…

— 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

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone.…

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Ellen Glasgow

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— 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

I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let…

— Ellen Glasgow

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of…

— Ellen Glasgow

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not…

— Ellen Glasgow

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered…

— Ellen Glasgow

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

— Ellen Glasgow

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone…

— 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

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

— Ellen Glasgow

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

— 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

Dignity is an anachronism.

— Ellen Glasgow