"Money is made at Christmas out of holly……" — George Gissing
"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
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
35 Quotes by George Gissing
George Gissing has 35 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching…
-
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one…
-
Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the…
-
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no…
-
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
-
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to…
-
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as…
-
How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out…
-
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of…
-
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be…
-
For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
-
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
See all 35 quotes by George Gissing »
More Branch Quotes
This quote is filed under Branch Quotes,
one of 433 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy.…
— Julian Bond
-
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books…
— Anthony Burgess
-
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
— George W. Bush
-
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you…
— Rosalynn Carter
-
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
-
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
— Yasser Arafat
-
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence…
— Michelangelo
-
For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be…
— Martin Luther
-
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
-
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
— Trey Gowdy
-
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested…
— James Madison
See all 433 Branch Quotes »