George Sand Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

  George Sand

  Lying, Experience, May

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

• Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

  George Sand

  Happiness, Lying, Consciousness

  Handsome Lawrence ch. 3 (1872)

• The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

  George Sand

  Nature, Lying, Eye

  Letter to Juliette Lambert-Adam, April 7, 1868.

• I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

  George Sand

  Love, Lying, Believe

• Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

  George Sand

  Lying, Kissing, Hands

  Letter (17 June 1837) in "The Intimate Journal of George Sand" translated and edited by Marie Jenney Howe, 1929.

• Lying, like license, has its degrees.

  George Sand

  Lying, Degrees, License

• Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.

  George Sand

  Country, Art, Lying

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