All Gustave Flaubert Quotes
- [T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure… Bears
- What is the beautiful, if not the impossible. Beautiful
- And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and… Beats
- Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.' Apes
- Read much, but not many books. Books
- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Art
- Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the… All
- Success is a result, not a goal Goal
- She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony… Beauty
- Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc wreaking. All
- Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot… Books
- Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless. Boundaries
- All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. All
- Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the… Bang
- When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man… Circle
- My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear,… Called
- Doubtis an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. Doubt