Business Quote by Gustave Flaubert

For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Emile was a journalist who had acquired more reputation by doing nothing than others from a successful productive career. A bold, biting, spirited critic,…

— Honoré de Balzac

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

“Her manifold ills were summed up in the King. Since the Valois, she had had no monarch so worthless. He did not want understanding,…

— Francis Parkman

“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in…

— Anonymous

“Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the only way…

— Marcel Proust

“He bethought him with pride that he had always been called a scholar, and sneered at for his love of solitude and books. He…

— Virginia Woolf

“Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.”

— Emil Cioran

“The poet makes himself a seer through a long, tremendous, planned detachment of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbauld

“Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing that art…

— Haruki Murakami

“Two decades later, Ferdinand Hiller had proposed in a long essay—published in a special issue of the magazine Salon that celebrated Beethoven’s centenary—precisely where…

— Russell Martin

“There was very little that his position called upon him to do, but there was much that it forbad him to do. It was…

— Anthony Trollope