242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

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

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

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