George Gissing Quotes

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• 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

  Courage, Men, Blood

  George Gissing (1909). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”

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• 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

  Love, Heart, Eye

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.98, The Floating Press

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

  George Gissing

  Mind, Growing, Calm

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.63, The Floating Press

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

  George Gissing

  Poverty, Bitterness, Curse

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.200, The Floating Press

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

  George Gissing

  Time, Money, Turns

  "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft". Book by George Gissing. Winter, § 24, p. 287, 1903.

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• Life 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

  Laughter, Fate, Farce

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.153, Booklassic

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• Have the courage of your desire.

  George Gissing

  Success, Courage, Bravery

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• It 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 . . .

  George Gissing

  Time, Children, Stress

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.248, The Floating Press

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• I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.

  George Gissing

  Hate, Heart, Men

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.253, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

  George Gissing

  Men, Solitude, Common

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• The 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 transmutes into thought.

  George Gissing

  Truth, Honesty, Soul

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.148, The Floating Press

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• I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

  George Gissing

  Happiness, Passing Moments, Passings

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

  George Gissing

  Cities, Growth, Pavement

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.29, The Floating Press

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• It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

  George Gissing

  Pain, Causes, Speak

  George Gissing (2016). “The Unclassed”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

  George Gissing

  Rain, Doors, Shining

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• In 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 cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

  George Gissing

  Food, Grandmother, Cooking

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• Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

  George Gissing

  Acceptance, Compassion, Often Is

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Smell

  George Gissing (2015). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.22, George Gissing

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• To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

  George Gissing

  Understanding, Tests, Capacity

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• Honest 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 bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

  George Gissing

  Heart, Winter, Long

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• I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

  George Gissing

  Hate, Food, Names

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• Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

  George Gissing

  Intellectual, Vices, Hopeless

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.177, Booklassic

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• To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.

  George Gissing

  Order, People

  George Gissing (2015). “Will Warburton”, p.14, George Gissing

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

  George Gissing

  Humans, Creatures, Adapting

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• For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

  George Gissing

  Book, Scent, Lovers

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.39, The Floating Press

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