"New Grub Street" Quotes
"New Grub Street" explores the struggles of writers and the harsh realities of the literary world in Victorian England.
classics | 324 pages | Published in 1891
Quotes
The world is not a very nice place, and it contains no more evil and suffering than are necessary for the final attainment of good.
The wise man is he who knows the limitations of his wisdom.
It's the way with all men and women. They think they've got a hold of life for good, and life has got a hold of them for good, and they find they're mistaken.
Literature nowadays is a trade. Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, your successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman.
The world is full of ambitious poor men.
Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.
There are few things more strange and pitiful than the way in which the lack of money seems to breed lack of self-respect.
No man can always be at his best, and the world is not so insatiate of genius that it can afford to wait for the man of genius to come before it will take any notice of him.
The world is a place of squalid horror, and both life and the world are held by the majority to be good.
The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason.
