Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: 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. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: No human creature can give orders to love. [George Sand] | Author: George Sand
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: A lie is an excuse guarded. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: May you live all the days of your life. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. [Jonathan Swift] | Author: Jonathan Swift
Author: Ambrose Bierce | Quote: Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. [Ambrose Bierce] | Author: Ambrose Bierce