Ellen Glasgow - Man Quotes

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It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted — and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

Ellen Glasgow
There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

Ellen Glasgow
It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

Ellen Glasgow
What a man marries for's hard to tell... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

Ellen Glasgow
He's at the age when a man knows everything on earth an' generally knows it wrong.

Ellen Glasgow
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Ellen Glasgow
And I am simply delighted that you have a Springer spaniel. That is the perfect final touch to our friendship. Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs.

Ellen Glasgow
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

Ellen Glasgow
You can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.

Ellen Glasgow
I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Ellen Glasgow