George Sand Quotes

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one...

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays hersel...

Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we...

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the ...

I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and ...

J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presqu...

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is ...

No human creature can give orders to love.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by effort...

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning...

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. Thereverse is true. As one gro...

Let us accept truth even when it surprises us and alters our views.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness:...

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience an...

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen ...

It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil...

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to yo...

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squ...

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary one climbs higher and hi...

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength his glory and his pleasure.

There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a ...

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 M...

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it rema...

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-...

Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation how to lose with...

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, ...

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lo...

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow wi...

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.