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Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar. — Ellen Glasgow

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances. — Ellen Glasgow

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it. — Ellen Glasgow

To be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. — Ellen Glasgow

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

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them. — Ellen Glasgow

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness. — Ellen Glasgow

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace. — Ellen Glasgow

Borrowed illusions are better than none ... — Ellen Glasgow

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

The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter. — Ellen Glasgow

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all. — Ellen Glasgow

Irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay. — Ellen Glasgow

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction. — Ellen Glasgow

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk. — Ellen Glasgow

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. — Ellen Glasgow

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ... — Ellen Glasgow

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

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated. — Ellen Glasgow

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

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember. — Ellen Glasgow

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

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt. — Ellen Glasgow

It is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself ... — Ellen Glasgow

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver. — Ellen Glasgow

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. — Ellen Glasgow

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers. — Ellen Glasgow

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. — Ellen Glasgow

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature. — Ellen Glasgow

You could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well. — Ellen Glasgow

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. — Ellen Glasgow

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature. — Ellen Glasgow

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

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. — Ellen Glasgow

The only differnce between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. — Ellen Glasgow

He knows so little and knows it so fluently. — Ellen Glasgow

The whole younger generation looks to me like a sum that doesn't add up.' Lavinia — Ellen Glasgow

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds. — Ellen Glasgow

Audacity is of all qualities the most youthful. — Ellen Glasgow

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

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth. — Ellen Glasgow

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics. — Ellen Glasgow

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity. — Ellen Glasgow

Though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price. — Ellen Glasgow

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow

Happiness is a hardy annual. — Ellen Glasgow

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

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring ... — Ellen Glasgow

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

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature ... I would write of characters, not of characteristics. — Ellen Glasgow

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one. — Ellen Glasgow

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

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none. — Ellen Glasgow

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em ... — Ellen Glasgow

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering. — Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it. — Ellen Glasgow

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger. — Ellen Glasgow

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. — Ellen Glasgow

Convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities. — Ellen Glasgow

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. — Ellen Glasgow

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ... — Ellen Glasgow

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads. — Ellen Glasgow

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness. — Ellen Glasgow

The suitable is the last thing we ever want. — Ellen Glasgow

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy. — Ellen Glasgow

Cruelty is the only sin. — Ellen Glasgow

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated. — Ellen Glasgow

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'. — Ellen Glasgow

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

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

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? — Ellen Glasgow

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

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion — Ellen Glasgow

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

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ... — Ellen Glasgow

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. — Ellen Glasgow

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. — Ellen Glasgow

Human nature. I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings. — Ellen Glasgow

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. — Ellen Glasgow

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it. — Ellen Glasgow

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

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority. — Ellen Glasgow

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage. — Ellen Glasgow

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me. — Ellen Glasgow

Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley. — Ellen Glasgow

Dignity is an anachronism. — Ellen Glasgow

We love from little motives, not for large reasons. — Ellen Glasgow

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age. — Ellen Glasgow

It is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality. — Ellen Glasgow

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy. — Ellen Glasgow

You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you. — Ellen Glasgow

A successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions. — Ellen Glasgow

He who demands little gets it. — Ellen Glasgow

A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short. — Ellen Glasgow

It is only in the heart that anything really happens. — Ellen Glasgow

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. — Ellen Glasgow

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. — Ellen Glasgow

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble. — Ellen Glasgow