Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 10
Of all lies, art is the least untrue. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 7
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 5
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 4
The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 4
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 4
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 3
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 3
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 3
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 3
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 3
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 3
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 3
The future is the worst thing about the present. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 3
She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 1
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 1
Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 1
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0