Quotes from Ellen Glasgow
I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.
- Ellen Glasgow
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
- Ellen Glasgow
O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
- Ellen Glasgow
Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.
- Ellen Glasgow
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
- Ellen Glasgow
Anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
- Ellen Glasgow
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
- Ellen Glasgow
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
- Ellen Glasgow
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
- Ellen Glasgow
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.
- Ellen Glasgow
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
- Ellen Glasgow
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
- Ellen Glasgow