17 quotes
What are we doing all our lives but purchasing, or trying to purchase, time? And most of us, having grasped it with one hand, throw it away with the other.
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
Time is money — says the vulgarest saw known to any age or people. Turn it round about, and you get a precious truth —money is time.
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
For the work of man's mind there is one test, and one alone, the judgment of generations yet unborn. If you have written a great book, the world to come will know of it.
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
I maintain that we people of brains are justified in supplying the mob with the food it likes.
New Grub Street: A Novel (1891)
No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
The Odd Women (1893)
The thought, however, of his girls having to work for money was so utterly repulsive to him that he could never seriously dwell upon it.
The Odd Women (1893)
To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.
Will Warburton (1905)
I am learning my business. Literature nowadays is a trade.
New Grub Street: A Novel (1891)
People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads — that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.
New Grub Street: A Novel (1891)
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.
The Unclassed (1884)
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.
The Book Of Us : A Guide To Scrapbooking About Relationships (2005)
The earning of money should be a means to an end; for more than thirty years — I began to support myself at sixteen — I had to regard it as the end itself.
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
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.
The insult was thrown out with a peculiarly reckless air; it astounded the hearer, who sat for an instant with staring eyes and lips apart; then the blood rushed to his cheeks.
Eve's Ransom (1895)
'A man who comes to be hanged,' pursued Jasper, impartially, 'has the satisfaction of knowing that he has brought society to its last resource. He is a man of such fatal importance that nothing will serve against him but the supreme effort of law. In a way, you know, that is success.'
New Grub Street: A Novel (1891)