Quotes by : 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....

I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves....

Honest Winter snow-clad and with the frosted beard I can welcome not uncordially But that long deferment....

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

Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment....

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its....

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow,....

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be....

But just understand the difference between a man like Reardon and a man like me. He is the old type of....

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.