Top 45 George Gissing Quotes
#1. I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society".
"If society were really decent, he would have been
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#2. No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
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#3. Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
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#4. Literature nowadays is a trade ... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.
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#5. Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.
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#6. Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
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#7. Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.
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#8. The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.
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#9. 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.
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#10. A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.
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#11. It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience ...
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#12. Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
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#16. He inspired no distrust; his good nature seemed all-pervading; he had the air of one who lavishes disinterested counsel, and ever so little exalts himself with his facile exuberance of speech. The Whirlpool
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#17. There should be no such thing as a class of females vulgarized by the necessity of finding daily amusement.
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#18. And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?
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#19. 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!
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#20. 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 gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?
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#21. That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be
generous.
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#22. To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
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#23. London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.
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#24. The earning of money should be a means to an end; for more than thirty years
I began to support myself at sixteen
I had to regard it as the end itself.
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#26. I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
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#30. To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.
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#31. Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [ ... ] chink of cups and the saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
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#32. For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
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#33. Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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#34. A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.
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#35. - Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!
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#36. I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?
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#37. To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Indolence had a great part in his temperament; a book, a sunny corner, and entire tranquillity, formed his ideal of supportable existence.
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#40. Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
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#41. 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.
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#42. The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.
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#45. 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.
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