The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Georges Sand

6 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes only is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.— filed under Beauty
Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.— filed under Chance
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means in the way the future keeps its promises.— filed under Happiness
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.— filed under Intellect
Ballads. An Excellent New Medley. Be prudent, and if you hear, *** some insult or some threat, *** have the appearance of not hearing it.— filed under Prudence
A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress only on what is deeply felt.— filed under War
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