"To be at other people's orders brings out…" — George Gissing
"To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me."
—
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 All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »