Quotes from Ellen Glasgow
Cruelty is the only sin.
— Ellen Glasgow
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
— Ellen Glasgow
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
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
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
— Ellen Glasgow
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
— Ellen Glasgow
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
The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
— 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
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
— Ellen Glasgow
Anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
— Ellen Glasgow