List of George Gissing Quotes

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George Gissing
Total Quotes 40
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
Stupid Moving Individual
No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
Thinking Should Young
I am much better employed from every point of view, when i live solely for my own satisfaction, than when i begin to worry about the world. the world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.
Being Yourself Being Single Men
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
Events Way Calamity
Money is made at christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?
Christmas Hollies Care
London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.
London Hotel Shops
People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at i the dictation of the holy spirit. i tell you, writing is a business.
Writing People Prejudice
Money is time. with money i buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.
Money Cheerful Use
A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.
Cigar Hours Vacuity
Perhaps it is while drinking tea that i most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.
Drinking Tea Leisure
And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? who asked him to publish? who promised him a hearing? who has broken faith with him? your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?
Writing Men Nurse
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great european war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. his phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
War Writing Mean
  • Born: November 22, 1857
  • Died: December 28, 1903
  • Occupation: Novelist
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