you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well. Ellen Glasgow More Quotes by Ellen Glasgow More Quotes From Ellen Glasgow After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances. Ellen Glasgow appearancejudgingmen I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings. Ellen Glasgow being-humanhuman-naturehumanity Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. Ellen Glasgow spiritualityvalleyssanctuary He who demands little gets it. Ellen Glasgow manifestationdemandlittles ... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language. Ellen Glasgow murder-mysteriesnineteencharacter Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity. Ellen Glasgow soilvanitymen Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. Ellen Glasgow illogicalremembrancedesire I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb. Ellen Glasgow hurtprayerbelieve The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. Ellen Glasgow honorageattitude Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone. Ellen Glasgow freedomhurtlong That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness. Ellen Glasgow sicknesspoorgiving Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature. Ellen Glasgow practicemenreligion No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't. Ellen Glasgow gratitudegratefulexample He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone. Ellen Glasgow mindmenworld The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds. Ellen Glasgow naturecompassionchildren Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. Ellen Glasgow crudeviolenceliterature 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 making-a-differencedifferencesyears 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. Ellen Glasgow youthwantyears There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone. Ellen Glasgow stand-alonesupportstrong The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. Ellen Glasgow perversityenjoydeath
