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Top 120 Ellen Glasgow Quotes (2024 Update)
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Ellen Glasgow Quote: “The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn’t need it.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Grandpa says we’ve got everything to make us happy but happiness.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “There is a terrible loneliness in the spring...”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into ’em...”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “But youth isn’t happy. Youth is sadder than age.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “The afternoon slipped away while we talked – she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her – and it was the last hour of day – that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes – that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, “O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!””
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “That was the worst of being poor, you couldn’t give the right things in sickness.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world...”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Surely the novel should be a form of art – but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.”
Ellen Glasgow Quote: “Just words, words. I sometimes wish we had never learned how to talk.”
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