George Sand Quotes (34 Quotes)

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.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

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.

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

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

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

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

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.

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

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows 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.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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?

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

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.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

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

No human creature can give orders to love.

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.

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

There is only one happiness in this 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 not always that of the soul.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

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

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

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.

It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, th

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

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.

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

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.