Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.
Ellen GlasgowMediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Ellen GlasgowWhat a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.
Ellen Glasgow...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.
Ellen Glasgow