All Gustave Flaubert Quotes
- The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you… Accomplishment
- A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Death
- Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Inspirational
- To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. All
- The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. Attracts
- There is no truth. There is only perception. Favourite
- Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Clings
- I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. Always Looked
- Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Enterprise
- A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. Beautiful
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue. All
- Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. Dog
- The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Diet
- Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. Anything Becomes
- Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. Ambitious
- Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. Devil
- Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Everything One
- Read in order to live. Book
- The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. All
- The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Art