Complete Works of George Gissing Quotes

“To stab the root of a young tree, to hang crushing burdens upon it, to rend off its early branches — that is not the treatment likely to result in growth such as nature purposed. There will come of it a vicious formation, and the principle applies also to the youth of men.”
― George Gissing, Complete Works of George Gissing

“A novel with undoubted weaknesses, it is nevertheless a considerable achievement for a 22 year”
― George Gissing, Complete Works of George Gissing

“It is the duty of every man, who has sufficient means, to maintain a wife. The life of unmarried women is a wretched one; every man who is able ought to save one of them from that fate.”
― George Gissing, Complete Works of George Gissing

“Of the country poor, at a somewhat”
― George Gissing, Complete Works of George Gissing