Ellen Glasgow Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.”

“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”

“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.”

“He knows so little and knows it so fluently.”

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

“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.”

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