All Gustave Flaubert Quotes
- COLD. Healthier than heat. Cold
- Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art. Art
- It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts. Chestnuts
- What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. Elder
- Exuberance is better than taste. Better
- It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Always Sad
- The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft. Aloft
- The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. All
- Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are… All
- What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! Current
- I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the… All
- For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like… Closed
- You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when… Bastards
- I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under… Ascetic
- One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! Blood
- The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. Deplorable
- DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when… All
- I live absolutely like an oyster. Absolutely
- Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art. Art
- Reveal art; conceal the artist. Art