I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and … - George Sand

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

George Sand

I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.

Angel, Believe, Exhausted, Men, Poor

Same Author Quotes

nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then. . . We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

Nature, Poetry, Stars, Sweet, Twinkle, Unsullied

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.

Ignorant, Law, Love, Men, Subject

When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you. . .

Air, Dissolved, Draw, Kissing, Lips, Tried

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

Expect, Faith, Like, Like Love, Want

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

Good, Heart, My Heart, Perhaps, Tears, Watered