Ellen Glasgow Quotes
- It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
- . . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love…
- 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 the…
- He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
- The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
- No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
- In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
- Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
- I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
- You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you.
- She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
- Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
- . . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life -…
- No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated .…
- Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
- In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret…
- To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
- The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . .…
- Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
- He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world.…