George Gissing

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch…

— George Gissing

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children,…

— George Gissing

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

— George Gissing

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

— George Gissing

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

— George Gissing

“I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.”

— George Gissing

“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had…

— George Gissing

“Her womanhood went eagerly to meet him.”

— George Gissing

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch…

— George Gissing

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

— George Gissing

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its…

— George Gissing

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

— George Gissing

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin…

— George Gissing

“One doesn’t like to do brutal things if one can avoid them, you know.”

— George Gissing

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those…

— George Gissing

“Before Miss Harrow’s departure Maud and Dora reached home. They were curious to see the young lady from the valley of the…

— George Gissing

“He was in spring costume, and exhaled fresh odours.”

— George Gissing

London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

— George Gissing

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

— George Gissing

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

— George Gissing

“To the relatively poor (who are so much worse off than the poor absolutely) education is in most cases a mocking cruelty.”

— George Gissing

“Best or worst, novels are all the same. Nothing but love, love, love; what silly nonsense it is! Why don’t people write…

— George Gissing

“The earning of money should be a means to an end; for more than thirty years--I began to support myself at sixteen--I…

— George Gissing

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay,…

— George Gissing

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy,…

— George Gissing