Best Quotes by Ellen Glasgow (Top 10)

  1. All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
  2. The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
  3. 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.
  4. It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
  5. Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
  6. Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
  7. Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.
  8. Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
  9. No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
  10. He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

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