Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEYou have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
More Andre Gide Quotes
-
-
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDE -
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDE -
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDE -
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDE -
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDE -
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDE -
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDE -
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDE -
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDE -
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE -
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDE -
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE -
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDE -
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDE -
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