Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

• Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
• All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
• Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
• He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
• I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
• 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.
• It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
• Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
• Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
• What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
• Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
• To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
• 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.
• The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
• Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
• No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
• Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
• No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
• 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.
• 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.
• The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.