Quotes from George Sand

almost all novels are love stories.

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.

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

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.

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

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.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

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

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.

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

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.

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

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

They [the peasants] were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

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

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

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.

Love, bumping his head blindly against all the obstacles of civilization.

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.

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

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

Revolutions… have put one half of France in mourning for the other.