George Sand
George Sand
Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of artists, including Polish-French composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin and the writer Alfred de Musset...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth1 July 1804
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
french-novelist happiness love
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
love life friendship
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
kindness regret giving
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
happy people common
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
prayer world lovers
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
unrequited-love love-is errors
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
poetry noble delight
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
religion force built
No religion can be built on force.
humanity outraged
Humanity is outraged in me and with me.
weed heart errors
Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.
kings noble earth
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.
vanity vices slave
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
time nuts driven
Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.
nature lying eye
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...