242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.