George Sand Quotes

“The intellect seeks, the heart finds.”

“We must have a passion in life.”

“Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.”

“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.”

“Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of 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, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.”

“The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!”

“The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.”

“We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.”

“The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.”

“Years do not always make age.”

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

“Humanity is outraged in me and with me.”

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

“Vanity is the quicksand of reason.”

“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 have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.”

“Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”

“No human creature can give orders to love.”

“... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?”