Top 20 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

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

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

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.

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

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.

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.