Top 100 George Sand Quotes
#1. Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society.
Ellen Key
#2. precisely the same way the pastoral novels of George Sand, which she was giving me for my birthday, were regular lumber-rooms of antique furniture, full of expressions that have fallen out of use and returned as imagery, such as one finds now only in country dialects.
Marcel Proust
#3. Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.
Anais Nin
#4. I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand ... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me ... What an unattractive person La Sand is ... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.
Frederic Chopin
#5. The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page.
Frances Mayes
#6. About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": "What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.
Belinda Jack
#7. I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
Juliette Binoche
#8. To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!
George Sand
#9. I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
George Sand
#10. Living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.
George Sand
#11. Faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
George Sand
#12. Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure ... true kindness.
George Sand
#13. Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
George Sand
#14. Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.
George Sand
#15. She discovered that a great deal of the suffering in this world is due not so much to original sin, but to a kind of original stupidity, an unimaginative, stubborn stupidity.
George Sand
#16. Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.
George Sand
#18. We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
George Sand
#19. When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you ...
George Sand
#20. Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
George Sand
#23. 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.
George Sand
#24. A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
George Sand
#25. You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder ...
George Sand
#26. 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.
George Sand
#27. The contemplation of Mont Blanc's unchanging summits for three or four days last month, the sight of that eternal snow, immaculate, sublime in its whiteness and calm, was enough to restore to my soul a serenity it had not known for a long time.
George Sand
#28. Nature distributes her favors unequally.
George Sand
#29. Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
George H. W. Bush
#30. Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.
George Sand
#31. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand
#32. You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.
George Sand
#33. A woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
George Sand
#34. [I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.
George Sand
#35. But George actually does have a point, because you know when they send out those space probes and they beam back footage of what it looks like up there? All those films ever show are sand and rocks. I've never seen a bra in any of that footage.
Carrie Fisher
#36. What is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
George Sand
#37. My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse
I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.
George Sand
#38. It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
George Sand
#39. Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
George Sand
#40. The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!
George Sand
#41. Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.
George Sand
#42. I'm not sure that there's anything more horrible than staying in a furnished room in Paris, especially
George Sand
#43. Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still
and they obeyed.
Benjamin Franklin
#44. The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes ...
George Sand
#45. To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
George Sand
#46. Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
George Sand
#47. Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.
George Sand
#48. Gaunt men with sunken eyes squatted amidst sand and stones, shitting out their lives in stinking streams of brown and red.
George R R Martin
#49. Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand
#51. If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
George Sand
#52. 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.
George Sand
#53. It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past ...
George Sand
#55. 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.
George Sand
#56. Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand
#58. Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
George Sand
#59. 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 ...
George Sand
#60. Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.
George Sand
#61. Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.
George Sand
#62. [Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!
George Sand
#63. Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass
the earth
into the second
eternity.
Margaret George
#65. 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.
George Sand
#66. These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
George Sand
#67. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
#68. The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
George Sand
#70. Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.
George Sand
#71. It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.
George Sand
#72. The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.
George Sand
#73. Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.
George Sand
#74. 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.
George Sand
#75. Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
George Sand
#76. Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?
George Sand
#77. As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy
George Mackay Brown
#78. Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.
George Sand
#79. Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.
George Sand
#80. The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
George Sand
#81. 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.
George Sand
#82. I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
George Sand
#83. The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.
George Sand
#84. We have now all sorts of good reasons for accepting life, quite as good as those that had made us reject it the previous week.
George Sand
#85. You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
George Sand
#86. At the very time I should speak out I feel more than ever the impossibility of doing so.
George Sand
#87. Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
George Sand
#88. As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
George Sand
#89. Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.
George Sand
#90. He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
George Carman
#91. You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.
George Sand
#92. The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
George Sand
#93. The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.
George Sand
#94. Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
George Sand
#95. Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
George Sand
#96. The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
#97. 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.
George Sand
#98. Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
George Sand
#99. Love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
George Sand
#100. 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?
George Sand
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