Ellen Glasgow Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Humanity, Human Nature, Being Human

  Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.144, Read Books Ltd

• 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

  Men, Youth, Human Nature

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.277, The Floating Press

• I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Human Nature, Humans, Human Beings

• It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Human Nature, Humans, Overestimate

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

• ... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Beauty, Normal, Labels

• I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Character, Human Nature

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