Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Ellen Glasgow
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
World
Difference
Wouldn
Fun
Differences
Half
Children
Mite
Much
Weren
Men
Skins
More quotes by Ellen Glasgow
The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
Ellen Glasgow
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
Ellen Glasgow
Cruelty is the only sin.
Ellen Glasgow
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen Glasgow
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
Ellen Glasgow
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
Ellen Glasgow
The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
Ellen Glasgow
anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
Ellen Glasgow
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Ellen Glasgow
I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
Ellen Glasgow
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.
Ellen Glasgow
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
Ellen Glasgow
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
Ellen Glasgow
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
Ellen Glasgow
Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
Ellen Glasgow
It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
Ellen Glasgow
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
Ellen Glasgow
