Quotes from Ellen Glasgow
Lord! Lord! thar's such a sight of meanness in this here world that it makes a body b'lieve in Providence whether or no.
- Ellen Glasgow
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
- Ellen Glasgow
The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
- Ellen Glasgow
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
- Ellen Glasgow
The suitable is the last thing we ever want.
- Ellen Glasgow
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
- Ellen Glasgow
Cruelty is the only sin.
- Ellen Glasgow
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
- Ellen Glasgow
Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.
- Ellen Glasgow
Marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.
- Ellen Glasgow
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
- Ellen Glasgow
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, and my best ones ahead.
- Ellen Glasgow