242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.