Top 150 George Sand Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?”

— George Sand

53. “One is happy 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.”

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

55. “Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.”

— George Sand

56. “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.”

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

58. “Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.”

— George Sand

59. “Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.”

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

62. “O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.”

— George Sand

63. “Admiration and familiarity are strangers.”

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

66. “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

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

— George Sand

68. “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

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

— George Sand

70. “Humanity is outraged in me and with me.”

— George Sand

71. “You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...”

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

73. “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.”

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

75. “Party politics is now a real farce.”

— George Sand

76. “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

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

— George Sand

78. “Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.”

— George Sand

79. “Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits’-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.”

— George Sand

80. “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

81. “When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.”

— George Sand

82. “You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.”

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

84. “Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.”

— George Sand

85. “Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.”

— George Sand

86. “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.”

— George Sand

87. “Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.”

— George Sand

88. “No religion can be built on force.”

— George Sand

89. “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

90. “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

91. “No human creature can give orders to love.”

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

93. “You must write for all those who are thirsty to read and who can enjoy a good reading.”

— George Sand

94. “Nature distributes her favors unequally.”

— George Sand

95. “Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary...”

— George Sand

96. “The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.”

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97. “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

98. “Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.”

— George Sand

99. “Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.”

— George Sand

100. “The lessons of experience are always learned too late.”

— George Sand