To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger. — Ellen Glasgow
I haven’t much opinion of words. They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say. — Ellen Glasgow
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. — Ellen Glasgow
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. — Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow
Women are one of the almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that he knows more than they do. — Ellen Glasgow
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end. — Ellen Glasgow