Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 8

Dignity is an anachronism.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.