George Gissing

Novelist

1857-11-22

Books by George Gissing

Textplus - New Grub Street
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The private papers of Henry Ryecroft
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The odd women
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Quotes by George Gissing

He liked to feel the soft little hand clasping his own fingers, so big and coarse in comparison, and happily so strong. For in the child's weakness he felt an infinite pathos; a being so entirely helpless, so utterly dependent upon others' love, standing there amid a world of cruelties, smiling and trustful.
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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.
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Money 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--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.
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Money 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--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.
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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.
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He liked to feel the soft little hand clasping his own fingers, so big and coarse in comparison, and happily so strong. For in the child's weakness he felt an infinite pathos; a being so entirely helpless, so utterly dependent upon others' love, standing there amid a world of cruelties, smiling and trustful.
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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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.
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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.
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I know every book of mine by its scent, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
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Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.
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I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?
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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.
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It is because nations tend to stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
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It is the mind which creates the world about 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.
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The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.
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Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion; in cases numberless, this it must be that saves from suicide.
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Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
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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.
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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.
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