Ellen Glasgow Quotes
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Change, Growth)
"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Experience, End, Literary)
"He knows so little and knows it so fluently."
- 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
(Related: Fire, Opinion, Tongue, Words)
"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
(Related: Difference, Events, Living, Years)
"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Forget)
"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Life, Nothing)
"Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Men, Women)
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens."
- Ellen Glasgow
"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Life, Literature, Violence)
"To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Self)
"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Men, Children, Difference, Fun, World)
"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Difference, Grave)
"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Desire, Nothing, Remembrance)
"No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Life)
"Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Women, Trouble)
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Idea, Will)
"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
(Related: Experience, History, School)
"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Life, Success, Financial, Independence, Irony, Reason)