242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

He who demands little gets it.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

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

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.