All Gustave Flaubert Quotes
- Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that… Bears
- I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. All
- Madame Bovary is myself. Bovary
- One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. Arrives
- Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. Congratulations
- The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Attained
- I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. Ascetic
- Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above… All
- Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Causes
- Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. Attacks
- But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off… Alienates
- I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen. Feel
- It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. Always Existed
- One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. Brainy
- Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. Animal
- I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner… Bases
- Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others. All
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. Apple
- Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Geometry
- Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. Confirms