Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgowwas an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1873
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
redemption ethics economy
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
years want youth
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
book school dust
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.
successful principles doe
a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.
long age taught
Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
passion thinking world
Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
success independence credit
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.
winning numbers mediocrity
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
inspirational motivational encouraging
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
war littles killing
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
women almighty enigma
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
winning love-is way
The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.
dog men doe
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
women knitting trouble
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.