Madame Bovary Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image “Madame Bovary is myself.” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Madame Bovary
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 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
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary. — Joseph McCarthy 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
As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She… — 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
Like the Wizards, Madame Tussauds has become a fixture in the nation's capital and one that I'm proud to be a part of. — Gilbert Arenas Copy Share Image
The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“Madame Boulle, in spite of her experiences among the highest English families, was amazed at the coolness shown by Lady Emily. A grandchild in… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
Madame Walker was mythologized like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but I want to show that she was fabulous on her own. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave 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
