In This Our Life Quotes

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Just words, words. I sometimes wish we had never learned how to talk.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Misery has made more revolutions than either philanthropy or economics.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“And though excellence may be seldom or never handed down in the blood, meanness, as his mother had warned him, is a fatal inheritance. In”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“They will never again build like this, he thought. Dignity is an anachronism.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Love comes, love goes; but comradeship is woven of an indestructible element.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“he was almost repulsive, without a single redeeming trait, Asa thought, watching him as the car rolled away, but a pillar, nevertheless, of a respectable world.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Why do all of us, every last one, have to go through hell to find out what we really want?’ The”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“For knitting composed the mind; knitting served the necessary means of evasion; knitting constituted not only an escape, but a tangible protection, from husbands.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“she was busily wondering how women could have survived marriage throughout the ages if knitting had not been invented,”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“she had never thought of the young as needing religion, because they always had so much else. For the elderly, especially for the elderly with husbands who were even more elderly but refused to admit it, she considered faith indispensable.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“man is not a rational animal. He may have invented many social philosophies, but he remains incurably biological.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Charlotte possessed, in reality, a mind of more than ordinary dimensions. It is true that feminine dissimulation, combined with the flattening influence of marriage, had subdued its activities; yet her rational part continued to exercise, in discreet silence, both passive intelligence and a critical faculty.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Glancing round the spacious library, where the handsome sets of books were never taken out of the formidable modern yet still Jacobean bookcases, he sighed regretfully because possessions, like the spirit of the possessor, are not incorruptible.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Nothing can ruin your life so long as you’re free to get up and run away.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“The whole younger generation looks to me like a sum that doesn’t add up.’ Lavinia”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Thrown into the gutter, yet full of sense and personality. But life was that way. You couldn’t tell what made personality, either in man or dog. Looking”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“her temperament was not designed to encourage warmth, even—or was it especially?—in a husband.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Grandpa says we’ve got everything to make us happy but happiness.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life