Quotes from Ellen Glasgow

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

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

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

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

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

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

Theories have nothing to do with life.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

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

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

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