242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

youth is always an enemy to the old ...

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.