242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the last hour of day -- that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes -- that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

The worst part of war is that so many people enjoy it.

Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely, she thought of herself as a happy woman; yet she was aware that this monotony of contentment had no relation to what she had called happiness in her youth. It was better perhaps; it was certainly as good; but it measured all the difference between youth and maturity.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.