George Gissing Quotes

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

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

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

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

Literature nowadays is a trade. Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, your successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets . . . - George Gissing

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

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

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

Have the courage of your desire. - George Gissing

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