Quotes by George Sand

“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,...”

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

“Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqu."[Letter to Armand Barbs, 12 May 1867]”

“God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.”

“The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers."Why didn't you let them in?"...”

“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.”

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive ones self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguise...”

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

“J'ai un but, une tche, disons le mot, une passion. Le mtier d'crire en est une violente et presque indestructible."[Letter to Jules Boucoiran, 4 March 1831]”

“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”

“The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine”

“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.”

“It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil, and so gentle as I have here, I am in an element that weakens me morally while strengthening me...”

“Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everythi...”

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

“[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.”

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

“Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nati...”

“It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. Thereverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.”

“When mental [illness] 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 fi...”