Quotes by George Gissing

George Gissing

I hate and fear ‘science’ because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men’s minds and hardening their hearts.

Hate

Heart

Men

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots – those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

Food

Hate

Names

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Happiness

Passing Moments

Passings

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.

Book

Reading

Smell

In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea…the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

Cooking

Food

Grandmother

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Individual

Moving

Stupid

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 . . .

Children

Stress

Time

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.

Causes

Pain

Speak

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.

Eye

Heart

Love

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.

Farce

Fate

Laughter

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Adapting

Art

Being Single

Being Yourself

Bitterness

Blood

Book

Bravery

Calamity

Calm

Capacity

Care

Causes

Cheerful

Children

Christmas

Cigar

Cities

Common

Compassion

Cooking

Courage

Creatures

Curse

Doors

Drinking

Events

Eye

Farce

Fate

Food

Grandmother

Growing

Growth

Happiness

Hate

Heart

Hollies

Honesty

Hopeless

Hotel

Hours

Humans

Individual

Intellectual

Laughter

Leisure

London

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Quotes by George Gissing

George Gissing

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots – those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

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.

In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea…the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

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 . . .

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.

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.

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.

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