Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Andre Gide
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Good
Sentiments
Produce
Literature
Often
Writing
More quotes by Andre Gide
We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
Andre Gide
I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
Andre Gide
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Andre Gide
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Andre Gide
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Andre Gide
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Andre Gide
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
Andre Gide
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Andre Gide
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Andre Gide
Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
Andre Gide
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
Andre Gide
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide
Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
Andre Gide
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Andre Gide
The wise man is astonished by anything.
Andre Gide
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
Andre Gide
Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
Andre Gide
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
Andre Gide
