Madame Bovary Quote by Gustav Flaubert Download Open image ““Madame Bovary, c'est moi.”” — Gustav Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Madame Bovary
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder and reality,… — Antonia Quirke Copy Share Image
“Il a besoin de cette femme pour vivre comme on a besoin de boire et de manger.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this,… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly--to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“There, at the top of the table, alone amongst all these women, stooped over his ample plateful, with his napkin tied around his neck… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I believe that if someone always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Bourgeois do not even suspect that we serve them our hearts. The race of gladiators has not died: every artist is one. He amuses… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about ordinary life… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story! — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Dad once noted (somewhat morbidly, I thought at the time) that American institutions would be infinitely more successful in facilitating the pursuit of knowledge… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Mary McCarthy, though, had it wrong when she wrote that “Madame Bovary is Don Quixote in skirts.” Emma’s suffering is Platonic: she searches, in… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary? He said it was 'a most conventional way to rise… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
