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
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
— Ellen Glasgow
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
The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
— 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 never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
— Ellen Glasgow
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
— 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
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
— Ellen Glasgow
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
— Ellen Glasgow