Flaubert Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Be selfish, stupid and have good health. But if stupidity is lacking, then all is lost." Flaubert's dictum for getting through life unscathed.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at…

— Albert Camus

“Flaubert tells us that three things are required for happiness: stupidity, selfishness, and good health. I am," he told Morgan, "an unhappy man -”

— Mary Doria Russell

“Flaubert teaches you to gave upon the truth and not blink from its consequences; he teaches you, with Montaigne, to sleep on the pillow…

— Julian Barnes

“He had no document but his memory; the training he had acquired with each added hexameter gave him a discipline unsuspected by those who…

— Jorge Luís Borges

“My mother, who has read all of Balzac and quotes Flaubert at every dinner, is living proof every day of how education is a…

— Muriel Barbery

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

— Le Figaro

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

“Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed brutal.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the…

— Cyril Connolly

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

— Dorothy Parker

“I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what Flaubert said:…

— Emil Cioran