George Sand Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Vanity is the quicksand of reason.”

“Admiration and familiarity are strangers.”

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

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

“No human creature can give orders to love.”

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