Ellen Glasgow People Quotations

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.