Source: Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women
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Famous Ellen Glasgow Quotes
“No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.”
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.”
Source: Virginia
“Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.”
“I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.”
Source: Works
“You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.”
Source: The Battle Ground
“Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.”
“Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.”
“The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.”
Source: Works
“Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?”
Source: Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women
Source: Works
Source: The Miller of Old Church
“After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.”
Source: Works
“I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
Source: In This Our Life
“Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.”
Source: Works
“He who demands little gets it.”
Source: The Voice of the People
“Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.”
Source: Works
“Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.”
“That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.”
Source: Vein of Iron
Source: Vein of Iron
Source: The Sheltered Life
Source: Vein of Iron
“I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.”
“Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?”