Quotes by Sand, George

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately an >>

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters o >>

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his g >>

Quotations about Women

You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her. >>

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecutio >>

Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teet >>

If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

Sand, George