Quotes from George Gissing

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

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

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.

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.