Ellen Glasgow Quotes

Cruelty is the only sin.
Ellen Glasgow
He who demands little gets it.
Ellen Glasgow
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
Ellen Glasgow
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
Ellen Glasgow
A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case. I had never seen him before, but from the first moment that I looked at him I took his measure, almost by intuition. He was, I suppose, honest enough -- I have always granted him that, bitterly as I have felt toward him. It wasn't his fault that he lacked red blood in his brain, or that he had formed the habit, from long association with abnormal phenomena, of regarding all life as a disease. He was the sort of physician -- every nurse will understand what I mean -- who deals instinctively with groups instead of with individuals. He was long and solemn and very round in the face; and I hadn't talked to him ten minutes before I knew he had been educated in Germany, and that he had learned over there to treat every emotion as a pathological manifestation. I used to wonder what he got out of life -- what any one got out of life who had analyzed away everything except the bare structure.
Ellen Glasgow