242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.