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Top 120 Ellen Glasgow Quotes (2024 Update)
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Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Dignity is an anachronism.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Why do all of us, every last one, have to go through hell to find out what we really want?’ The.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “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 events, or to make a difference in living.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “No, one couldn’t make a revolution, one couldn’t even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination...”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Happiness is a hardy annual.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “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 piles of dry dust in a school history book.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: – that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “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 Quote: “Borrowed illusions are better than none...”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life – the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being...”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy...”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing...”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “It is only in the heart that anything really happens.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Theories have nothing to do with life...”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Doesn’t all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “The suitable is the last thing we ever want.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one’s work is with a humble apology for having written at all.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “He who demands little gets it.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author’s success – the true success so different from the ephemeral – is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “To teach one’s self is to be forced to learn twice.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “I haven’t much opinion of words. They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.”
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