Top 20 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

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

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.