Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed…

“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

“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.”

— Steve Berry

“It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at…

— Albert Camus

“Flaubert tells us that three things are required for happiness: stupidity, selfishness, and good health. I am," he told Morgan, "an unhappy man -”

— Mary Doria Russell

“Flaubert teaches you to gave upon the truth and not blink from its consequences; he teaches you, with Montaigne, to sleep on the pillow…

— Julian Barnes

“He had no document but his memory; the training he had acquired with each added hexameter gave him a discipline unsuspected by those who…

— Jorge Luís Borges

“My mother, who has read all of Balzac and quotes Flaubert at every dinner, is living proof every day of how education is a…

— Muriel Barbery

“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 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

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears…

— Christopher Hitchens