"London is a huge shop, with a hotel…" — George Gissing
"London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys."
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35 Quotes by George Gissing
George Gissing has 35 quotes on this site.
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The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching…
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one…
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the…
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no…
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to…
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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as…
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How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out…
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of…
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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be…
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For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
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More Hotel Quotes
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one of 646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
— Margaret Atwood
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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But…
— Josephine Baker
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Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
— Dave Barry
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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in…
— Drew Barrymore
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take…
— Robert Benchley
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Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
— Josh Billings
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was…
— Larry Bird
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If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come…
— Lewis Black
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I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to…
— Mary J. Blige
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd…
— Ben Affleck
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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