George Gissing quote: "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 . . ."

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

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE GISSING

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

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
GEORGE GISSING

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

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is becaus...
GEORGE GISSING

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
GEORGE GISSING

It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same m...
GEORGE GISSING

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

Have the courage of your desire.
GEORGE GISSING

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has it...
GEORGE GISSING

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice . . .
GEORGE GISSING

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has l...
GEORGE GISSING

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be
generous.
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 re...
GEORGE GISSING

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
GEORGE GISSING

Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon ...
GEORGE GISSING

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

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to de...
GEORGE GISSING

Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes...
GEORGE GISSING

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING

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

Have the courage of your desire.
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long de...
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI

Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN

I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS

The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE

I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY

Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
GEORGE ORWELL

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL

Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL

I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL

Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL

I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS

I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL

I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL

Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; bu...
GEORGE COMBE

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS

It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ...
GEORGE TAKEI

We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of ...
GEORGE FOREMAN

People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
GEORGE FOREMAN

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65...
GEORGE FOREMAN

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt ...
GEORGE FOREMAN

We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started th...
GEORGE FOREMAN

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsi...
GEORGE GROSZ

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with,...
GEORGE GROSZ

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these t...
GEORGE CATLIN

The Word

Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY

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 . . .

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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 . . .

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