The Devil's Pool and Other Stories Quotes

“When a marriage for love is on the carpet; you must expect to waste time. But when it’s a marriage of convenience between two people who have no whims and who know what they want; it’s soon arranged.”
― George Sand, The Devil's Pool and Other Stories

“... I know better than any one what to think about my own plans, and I am always astonished that the critics dig so deep for them, when the simplest ideas, the most commonplace incidents, are the only inspiration to which the products of art owe their being.

~ April 12, 1851
in the "Notice”
― George Sand, The Devil's Pool and Other Stories

“I prefer the simplicity of his mind to the false enlightenment of yours”
― George Sand, The Devil's Pool and Other Stories

“But it’s different with a woman. Her work in the house is to keep not to get.”
― George Sand, The Devil's Pool and Other Stories