What did George Gissing mean by: Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. - George Gissing Novelist · England Copy
+ I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Gissing, Happiness, 0 - George Gissing Novelist · England
+ That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Gissing, Bitterness, Curse, Poverty, 0 - George Gissing Novelist · England
+ Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Gissing, Acceptance, Compassion, Often Is, 0 - George Gissing Novelist · England
+ Have the courage of your desire. Feraz Zeid, July 23, 2023December 12, 2023, George Gissing, Brave, Courage, Success, 0 - George Gissing Novelist · England
+ Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. Feraz Zeid, October 13, 2023December 26, 2023, George Gissing, Calamity, Events, 0 - George Gissing Novelist · England
+ Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Gissing, Money, Time, 0 - George Gissing Novelist · England
+ No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Gissing, Youth, 0 - George Gissing Novelist · England
+ Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Gissing, Creatures, Human, 0 - George Gissing Novelist · England
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. - William Lyon Phelps Professor · USA
At a certain age some people’s minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. - William Lyon Phelps Professor · USA