Ahhh Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting emotion, laughter, or thought.…

— Gustave Flaubert

“...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she…

— Gustave Flaubert

“When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.”

— Patricia Briggs

“We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the raw edges…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.”

— John Steinbeck

“Every morning, therefore, uncle Charles repaired to his outhouse but not before he had greased and brushed scrupulously his back hair and brushed and…

— James Joyce

“...it's a sinister wonderland. My life, cleaned like a revolver, levels in the direction of happiness. Come on. It's a Marxian dream, possessions divides,…

— Misha

“We rarely saw each other outside the walls of the gallery, but inside its glaring white spaces, to exorcise the tedium of the tasks…

— Sara Baume

“Changing the subject, she turned to me and said: ‘I think poor Mr. Le Bas must be so glad that Charles has left at…

— Anthony Powell

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“At any rate, they were strange fellows, these bohemians. They lounged around doing nothing and told you they were working; they were frightfully miserable…

— Dezső Kosztolányi

“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him.…

— D.H. Lawrence