All Gustave Flaubert Quotes
- I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to… Discover
- Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by… Causing
- You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything Absolutely
- Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must… Best
- There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more All
- Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will… Abyss
- He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him. Believe
- Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. Doubt
- I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see… Absolutely
- Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every… All
- (Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. Contrast
- Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. Calm
- Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life? Bored
- What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds! Compare
- I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition.… Across
- Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the… Admire
- It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are… Always Sad
- But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far… Bolted
- An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space. Contained
- One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. All