George Gissing Quotes

• Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Time

• I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Reading

• The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self, Excellent, Books, Reading

• It 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 stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Heart, Relationships

• 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.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Time, Happiness

• Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intellectual, Vice

• That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty, Generous

• Have the courage of your desire.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courage, Desire

• Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistent, Prophecy, Familiar

• 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.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nations, Stupidity

• For 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.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Vigorously

• The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

George Gissing (12)

Birth:	22nd November, 1857
Death:	28th December, 1903
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Teacher

About

George Robert Gissing was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. He was an English novelist. He also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880. His best known novels, which are published in modern editions, include The Nether World, New Grub Street, and The Odd Women. He wrote other novels include: The Whirlpool, Born in Exile, The Unclassed, In the Year of Jubilee, Eve's Ransom, Will Warburton, A Life's Morning, Demos, Isabel Clarendon, The Town Traveller, Denzil Quarrier, Veranilda, and Human odds and ends.

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