Quote by 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

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

— 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 added that…

— 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 were procurable?

— 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 beauty, and…

— George Gissing

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

— George Gissing