Top 178 Quotes & Sayings by George Sand
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist George Sand.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
No human creature can give orders to love.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
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.
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.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
The intellect seeks, the heart finds.
fretting at trouble only doubles it.
Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.
It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.
Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
Years do not always make age.
honesty dies in selling itself.
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
Not to love is to cease to live.
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.
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