255 Quotes by George Sand

The constant winds of petty appetite dissipate the power of response.

It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past...

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.

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.

At the very time I should speak out I feel more than ever the impossibility of doing so.

Autumn is a melancholy and graceful andante, that prepares beautifully solemn adagio of winter.

For her, finally, the literary art is an instrument of social salvation – it is her means of touching the world with her ideals, her love, her aspiration; for him the literary art is the avenue of escape from the meaningless chaos of existence – it is his subtly critical condemnation of the world.

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one’s self.