George Sand Quotes

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

When they are among us cats are angels

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

Years do not always make age.

No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.

When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

No one makes a revolution by himself.

No human creature can give orders to love.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

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