242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em ...

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.