242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing...

Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.

Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

I’m not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

The afternoon slipped away while we talked – she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her – and it was the last hour of day – that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes – that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you’ve never had.

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