George Sand – 10 Quotes

10 Quotes by George Sand

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

– George Sand

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

– George Sand

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

– George Sand

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.

– George Sand

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

– George Sand

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

– George Sand

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

– George Sand

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

– George Sand

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

– George Sand

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

– George Sand