Books Quote by George Gissing Download Open image ““The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”” — George Gissing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Time
“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race.… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“I can not imagine a world without books. My world will not be complete with the love for books.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“So many great books to read, when will I finish reading all these books?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can be death.” — Nina Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? — George Gissing Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
