Indiana Quotes

“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write”
― George Sand, Indiana

“I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées."

("It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.")”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Weak people live in perpetual fear and foreboding.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nation is responsible for the faults of its legislature, what one can you find that is guiltier than yours?”
― George Sand, Indiana

“There are moments of exaltation and ecstasy when our thoughts become, in a way, more pure, more subtle, more ethereal. These rare moments raise us up so high, carry us so far out of ourselves, that when we fall back to earth we lose the consciousness and the memory of that intellectual intoxication. Who can understand the anchorite’s mysterious visions? Who can relate the dreams of the poet before his emotion has cooled so that he can write them down for us?”
― George Sand, Indiana

“I’m not sure that there’s anything more horrible than staying in a furnished room in Paris, especially”
― George Sand, Indiana

“All our days are the same; they are all calm and beautiful; they pass swiftly and purely like those of our childhood.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Taisez-vous, sotte et impertinente créature ; vos phrases de roman nous ennuient.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“let us never trouble ourselves to explain why people love us, but how they love us. Happy the man who can be loved, no matter for what reason!”
― George Sand, Indiana

“but he was in love and nothing more. He had made her acquaintance because he had nothing else to do, perhaps, and success had kindled his desires; he had obtained more than he asked, and on the day that he triumphed over that easily vanquished heart he returned home dismayed by his victory, and said to himself, striking his forehead: “God grant that she doesn’t love me!” Thus it was not until after he had accepted all the proofs of her love that he began to suspect the existence of that love. Then he repented, but it was too late; he must either resign himself to what the future might have in store, or retreat like a coward toward the past. Raymon did not hesitate; he allowed himself to be loved, he loved in return for gratitude; he scaled the walls of the Delmare estate from the love of danger; he had a terrible fall from awkwardness; and he was so touched by his lovely mistress’s grief that he deemed himself justified thenceforth in his own eyes in continuing to dig the pit into which she was destined to fall.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write” Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write”
― George Sand, Indiana

“s'il est des douleurs qui ne se trahissent jamais et qui enveloppent l'âme comme un linceul, il est aussi des joies qui restent ensevelies dans le coeur de l'homme parce qu'une voix de la terre ne saurait les dire. D'ailleurs,”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Criticism is far too clever; that is what will be the death of it. It never judges straightforwardly what has been done straightforwardly. It looks for midday at two in the afternoon, as the old saying goes, and it must have done a great deal of harm to those artists who pay too much attention to its opinions.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Moi, je crois que l'opinion politique d'un homme, c'est l'homme tout entier. [...], notre caractère l'emporte tôt ou tard sur les préjugés ou le croyances de l'éducation.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“parce que la vue de la mer, tout en lui faisant mal, l'avait fascinée de son mirage magnétique. Il lui semblait qu'au-delà de ces vagues et de ces brumes lointaines la magique apparition d'une autre terre allait se révéler à ses regards.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Alors elle allait, du haut de quelque piton accessible, cratère éteint d'un ancien volcan, regarder le soleil couchant qui embrasait la vapeur rouge de l'atmosphère, et répandait comme une poussière d'or et de rubis sur les cimes murmurantes des cannes à sucre, sur les étincelantes parois des récifs.”
― George Sand, Indiana