Beaten Quote by 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 comeand go,…

— 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 gloom of…

— 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, can spring…

— Ellen Glasgow

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

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

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