Love Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

I have dreamed much and have done very little.

— Gustave Flaubert

Everything is there: the love of Art.

— Gustave Flaubert

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

— Gustave Flaubert

“Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

— Gustave Flaubert

“She now felt an incessant and universal numbness.”

— Gustave Flaubert

COLD. Healthier than heat.

— Gustave Flaubert

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

— Gustave Flaubert

“In every parting there comes a moment when the beloved is already no longer with us.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”

— Gustave Flaubert

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

— Gustave Flaubert

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc wreaking.

— Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

— Gustave Flaubert

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in…

— Gustave Flaubert

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting…

— Gustave Flaubert

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

— Gustave Flaubert

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Love, she believed, must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightening - a hurricane from heaven that drops down on…

— Gustave Flaubert

“When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I zamišljali su život predan jedino ljubavi, dosta plodan da ispuni najopsežnije samoće, prevrši sve radosti, odoli svim nevoljama, u kojem bi…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Ah!" thought Rodolphe, turning very pale, "that was what she came for." At last he said with a calm air— "Dear madame,…

— Gustave Flaubert

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only…

— Gustave Flaubert

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all…

— Gustave Flaubert

“How she listened, the first time, to the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholia echoing out across heaven and earth! If her childhood…

— Gustave Flaubert

Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He was savoring for the first time the ineffable subtleties of feminine refinement. Never had he encountered this grace of language, this…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Love, she felt, ought to come all at once, with great thunderclaps and flashes of lightning; it was like a storm bursting…

— Gustave Flaubert

“So far as Emma was concerned she did not ask herself whether she was in love. Love, she thought, was something that…

— Gustave Flaubert

“An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask myself what their lives might be like. I want to know what they do, where they're…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds me, I have turned…

— Gustave Flaubert

“But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, that she might…

— Gustave Flaubert

We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls…

— Gustave Flaubert

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

— Gustave Flaubert