All Gustave Flaubert Quotes
- Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar. Apartment
- Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar -… Big
- Success as I see it is a result, not a goal. Goal
- That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust. Brothel
- Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. Abyss
- My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… August
- May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! Die
- Talent is long patience. Long
- It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Creating
- Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective… Adjective
- Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to… Champagne
- I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. Alone
- I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of… All
- We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful! Beautiful
- Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. Blessing
- 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… Art
- If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed! All
- Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert. Camembert
- 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… Annoyed
- A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. Man