242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author’s success – the true success so different from the ephemeral – is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

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

No, one couldn’t make a revolution, one couldn’t even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion.

Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.

Theories have nothing to do with life...

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn’t have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Doesn’t all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization...