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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

That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises. — Kathleen Glasgow

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

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent. — Annalena McAfee

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

Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it. — Kathleen Glasgow

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

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

My mum always said you get more fun at a Glasgow stabbing than an Edinburgh wedding. — Caro Ramsay

I'm no stranger to fucking up. — Kathleen Glasgow

Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic. — Kathleen Glasgow

Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.

Girl slips on headphones. World gone. — Kathleen Glasgow

The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English. — Frankie Boyle

STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future. — Peter Capaldi

As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years. — Frankie Boyle

I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be. — Nicola Sturgeon

We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow. — Margot McCuaig

I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow. — Billy Connolly

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

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself. — Rita Ora

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

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

I'm running blind, ghosts swallowing me. — Kathleen 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

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

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

Dignity is an anachronism. — Ellen Glasgow

Evan always used to day that it wasn't that you couldn't see that you should be afraid of, but what was right in front of you, in plain sight. — Kathleen Glasgow

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

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

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

Each aberration of my skin is a song. Press your mouth against me. You will hear so much singing. — Kathleen Glasgow

I don't feel sad. For just now, I don't feel scared. I feel, for right now, well, kind of triumphant. — Kathleen Glasgow

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

Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire. — Frankie Boyle

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

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

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

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

The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer. — Emo Philips

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

I'm always losing things. — Kathleen Glasgow

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

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

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. — Ken Dodd

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

Glasgow has truly become my home away from home. — Caitriona Balfe

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

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

Everything and everybody that's busted can be fixed. That's what I think. — Kathleen Glasgow

Cruelty is the only sin. — Ellen Glasgow

He was from Glasgow. Everything past "good morning" was a blur. — Natasha Pulley

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places. — Roxanne McKee

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

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

There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten. — Bill Bryson

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

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses. — Alasdair Gray

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

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

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow. — Trinny Woodall

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

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. — Alasdair Gray

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

defiant, and her words have rough, girlish hope. The — Kathleen Glasgow

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

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish. — Adelaide Kane

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

It is a though he is spreading a veil of protectiveness over me, and I am greedy for it. — Kathleen 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