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
courage culture youth
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
youth cynicism
Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
men youth human-nature
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
enemy generations youth
youth is always an enemy to the old ...
age youth
But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
reality age youth
Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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.
american-novelist sit trouble women
Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
american-novelist difference grave rut
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
american-novelist easier hard life
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
cutting men blood
you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.
spring book light
1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
american-novelist hard life
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
born imagine suppose vital vivid
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.