Source: The Shadowy Third
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Famous Ellen Glasgow Quotes
“Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.”
Source: Works
“It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.”
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.”
“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.”
“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”
“I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.”
Source: The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
“Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.”
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.”
“To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.”
“anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.”
Source: Works
“Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.”
Source: Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women
Source: The Miller of Old Church
Source: The Descendant
“Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.”
Source: Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
Source: Vein of Iron
Source: Works
Source: In This Our Life
Source: Works
“To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.”
Source: Vein of Iron
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.”
Source: Vein of Iron
Source: The Voice of the People
“It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.”
Source: Works
“for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.”
Source: Works
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“Youth is always an enemy to the old.”
Source: The Battle-Ground
“True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.”
Source: Vein of Iron
Source: The Voice of the People
“If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.”
Source: Vein of Iron
“To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.”
“Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.”
Source: In This Our Life
“Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.”
Source: Vein of Iron
“Happiness is a hardy annual.”
Source: Vein of Iron
“though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.”
Source: Works
Source: The Descendant