Ellen Glasgow Quotes

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.