George Gissing Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
November 22, 1857 – December, 28, 1903.

George Robert Gissing was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Gissing also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880. His best known novels, which are published in modern editions, include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891), and The Odd Women (1893).

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

George Gissing
- Time
- Money
- Truth

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

George Gissing
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

George Gissing
Have the courage of your desire.

George Gissing
- Desire
- Courage
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

George Gissing
- Human
- Necessity
- Adapting
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
- Book
- Smell
- Nose
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

George Gissing
- Poverty
- Right
- Generous

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
- Pain
- Speak
- Trouble
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .

George Gissing
- Experience
- Unknown
- Speed
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

George Gissing
- Mind
- Hope
- Calm