Madame Bovary Quote by Enid Starkie

I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It's unthinkable to me that someone might not have read 'Madame Bovary.' He writes with a scalpel.…

— Brigitte Macron

“Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation.…

— Julian Barnes

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert”

— Minnie Estelle Miller

“Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer. [1857]”

— Le Figaro

“Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. In…

— Azar Nafisi

One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge, ghoulish fairy…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's…

— Christopher Hitchens

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma…

— Sophie Barthes

“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale of the…

— Leon Trotsky

“He was thinking of Marco, Daisy, Sono Oguki, Madeleine, the Pontritters, and now and then of the difference between ancient and modern tragedy according…

— Saul Bellow