All Ellen Glasgow Quotes
- A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has… Achieve
- What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. Attitude
- I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. Apt
- No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. Antiquated
- Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. Always Crude
- I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter… Alter
- No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the… Became
- Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me,… Ahead
- There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone. Alone
- The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. Came
- Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. Easier
- I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me. Down
- No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it. Cannot Make
- I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end. Advice
- Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. Down
- ...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, onlyone national hero; and we demand that… Able