I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy…

“Yates’s determinism, like Flaubert’s, was a matter of knowing his characters well enough to know their fates, and making the reader see this, too.…

— Blake Bailey

Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand…

— Sophie Barthes

“Americans lived in the moment, without history and thus without prophecy.”

— Nelson DeMille

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.”

— Dwight Lyman Moody

“Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer. [1857]”

— Le Figaro

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed brutal.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the…

— Cyril Connolly

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

— Dorothy Parker

“I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what Flaubert said:…

— Emil Cioran

I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It's unthinkable to me that someone might not have read 'Madame Bovary.' He writes with a scalpel.…

— Brigitte Macron

“No sooner do we come into this world,’ said Flaubert, ‘than bits of us start to fall off.”

— Julian Barnes

“No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes…

— Vladimir Nabokov