Quote: Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. [George Gissing]
Quote: It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. [George Gissing]
Quote: It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. [George Gissing]
Quote: Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. [George Gissing]
Quote: Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. [George Gissing]
Quote: That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. [George Gissing]
Quote: I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? [George Gissing]
Quote: For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent. [George Gissing]
Quote: For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. [George Gissing]
Quote: It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. [George Gissing]
Quote: Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. [George Gissing]
Quote: Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? [George Gissing]
Quote: Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion. [George Gissing]
Quote: I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. [George Gissing]
Quote: The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought. [George Gissing]
Quote: In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. [George Gissing]
Quote: That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. [George Gissing]
Quote: Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope. [George Gissing]
Quote: A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity. [George Gissing]
Quote: I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food! [George Gissing]
Quote: London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys. [George Gissing]
Quote: It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble. [George Gissing]
Quote: No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money. [George Gissing]
Quote: To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me. [George Gissing]
Quote: People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business. [George Gissing]