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There should be no such thing as a class of females vulgarized by the necessity of finding daily amusement.
— George Gissing
Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.
— George Gissing
London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.
— George Gissing
exchanged looks, and laughed together.
— George Gissing
The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.
— George Gissing
A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.
— George Gissing
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
— George Gissing
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
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
— George Gissing
To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.
— George Gissing
No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
— George Gissing
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
— George Gissing
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
— George Gissing
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
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
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
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.
— George Gissing
I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society"."If society were really decent, he would have been — George Gissing
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
The result will be something unutterably tedious.
— George Gissing
Indolence had a great part in his temperament; a book, a sunny corner, and entire tranquillity, formed his ideal of supportable existence.
— George Gissing
Literature nowadays is a trade ... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.
— George Gissing
Have the courage of your desire.
— George Gissing
For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
— George Gissing
