77 Quotes by George Gissing

"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."

"For, work as you will, there is no chance of a new and better world until the old be utterly destroyed."

"—Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!"

"I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society"."If society were really decent, he would have been"

"Like most men of his kind, he viewed religion as a precious and powerful instrument for directing the female conscience."

"I don't think . . . there's much real difference between men and women. That is, there wouldn't be, if women had fair treatment."

"He inspired no distrust; his good nature seemed all-pervading; he had the air of one who lavishes disinterested counsel, and ever so little exalts himself with his facile exuberance of speech. The Whirlpool"

"Never had it occurred to Widdowson that a wife remains an individual, with rights and obligations independent of their wifely condition."

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

"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."