Family Quote by George Sand

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

— George Sand

I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's…

— George Sand

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

The mind has no sex.

— George Sand

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

— George Sand

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

— George Sand

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

— 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

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that…

— 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…

— George Sand

“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.)”

— George Sand