George GissingIn nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cu… ▶372Thought
George GissingLife is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter. ✨ George Gissing (2015). New Grub Street, … ▶301HumorLifeReading
George GissingThe truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind tran… ▶313LifeThoughtTime
George GissingTime is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ✨ The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. Book by George Gissing. Winter, §… ▶358ReadingTimeTruth
George GissingFor the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.… ▶3610Thought
George GissingFor one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent. ✨ George Gissing (2016). The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, p.39, The Floating Press348Reading
George GissingTo like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.315Time
George GissingMoney is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-… ▶3510LovePolitics
George GissingFlippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. ✨ George Gissing (2015). New Grub Street, p.177, Booklassic276HopeReading
George GissingAnd 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 fait… ▶233DeathHopeReading
George GissingIt 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. ✨ G… ▶211Humanity
George GissingHow I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, a… ▶288PoliticsReadingTime
George GissingI 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 frightene… ▶213Truth
George GissingHonest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that b… ▶249HopeLoveTruth
George GissingMoney 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 (2016). The Private P… ▶131Politics
George GissingI have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? ✨ George Gissing (2016). The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, p.55, The Floating Press142DeathTime
George GissingIt is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . . ✨ G… ▶142LifeTime
George GissingIt is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never sti… ▶179LoveThought
George GissingLife, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion. ✨ George Gissing (2016). The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, p.25, The Floating Pr… ▶179LifeLove
George GissingMoney 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. ✨ George Gissin… ▶149Time
George GissingThat is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. ✨ George Gissing (2016). The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, p.200, The Floating Press1310Politics
