242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy ...

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.