Quotes by George Sand

“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect””

“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."””

“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.””

“Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.””

“The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.””

“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.””

“The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine””

“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.””

“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.(La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie.)””

“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.””

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

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s 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. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write””

“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.””

“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.””