Quote

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

Andre Gide

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Translator
Travel Writer
Writer
Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Prevent
Prefer
Grace
Able
Good
Shan
Granting

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
Andre Gide
Image
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
Image
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Andre Gide
Image
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
Andre Gide
Image
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
Andre Gide
Image
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
Andre Gide
Image
Only fools don't contradict themselves
Andre Gide
Image
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
Andre Gide
Image
When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
Andre Gide
Image
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
Andre Gide
Image
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
Andre Gide
Image
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide
Image
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
Andre Gide
Image
The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
Andre Gide
Image
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
Image
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
Image
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide
Image
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
Andre Gide
Image
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
Image
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
Andre Gide