George GissingThinkers

Flippancy is the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

London is a great gloomy city, webbed and meshed, as it were, by the spinnings of a huge poisonous spider.

London is a place of squalid mystery and terror, of the grimly grotesque, of labyrinthine obscurity and lurid fascination.

A Park is but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.