Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 9
Of all lies, art is the least untrue. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 6
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 heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. 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 future is the worst thing about the present. 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
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. 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
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
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
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed at. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0
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 0
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 0