242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life – the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being...

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That’s why they all look so sad.

Grandpa says we’ve got everything to make us happy but happiness.

The government’s like a mule, it’s slow and it’s sure; it’s slow to turn, and it’s sure to turn the way you don’t want it.

Why do all of us, every last one, have to go through hell to find out what we really want?’ The.

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o’clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour.

There wouldn’t be half as much fun in the world if it weren’t for children and men, and there ain’t a mite of difference between them under the skins.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy...

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