385 Quotes by Andre Gide

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

Whither should we aim if not towards God?

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.