Ellen Glasgow Quotes

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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

~ Ellen Glasgow

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

~ Ellen Glasgow

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

~ Ellen Glasgow

Cruelty is the only sin.

~ 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

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

~ Ellen Glasgow

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

~ Ellen Glasgow

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

~ Ellen Glasgow

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

~ Ellen Glasgow

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

~ Ellen Glasgow