Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 3

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• convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Principles, Way

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

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  Tragedy, Life Is, Pathos

  Ellen Glasgow (1938). “Virginia”

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

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  Women, Knitting, Trouble

  1932 The Sheltered Life, pt.3, section 3.

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• Cruelty is the only sin.

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  Sin, Cruelty

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• 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.

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  Success, Independence, Credit

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

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  Women, Almighty, Enigma

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• If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

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  Grief, Heart, Moon

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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

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  Literature, Violence, Crude

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

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  Self, Teach

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• Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

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  Two, Ordinary, Anarchy

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• . . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

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  Love, Flower, Animal

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”

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• There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

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  Stupidity, Selfishness, Stronger

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

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  Sarcastic, Majority, Produce

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “Virginia”, p.126, The Floating Press

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

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  Giving, Sickness, Poor

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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

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  Success, Men, Satisfaction

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• . . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.

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  Dog, Hurt, Uncles

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• Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

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  Moderation, Explosions

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• After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

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  Men, Judging, Appearance

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• 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.

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  Government, Want, Mules

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Voice of the People”, p.213, The Floating Press

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• It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

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  Tests, Should, Prose

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• anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

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  Jealousy, Anger, Heart

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

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  Reality, Ideas, Flying

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

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  Courage, Culture, Youth

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• In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

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  Favorite Hobby, Vacuums, Hobbies

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• After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

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  Rain, Bars, Golden

  Ellen Glasgow (2008). “Life and Gabriella (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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