Best George Gissing Quotes
- 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.… Ancient
- This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by… All
- 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… Bad
- 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… Beheld
- Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. Flippancy
- I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? Ask
- Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? Branch
- Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion. Acceptance
- 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… Begin
- The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over… Book