Beauty Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and…

— Virginia Woolf

“He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all…

— Mary Shelley

“I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even…

— Sonja Livingston

“she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her.”

— Virginia Woolf

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires…

— Gustave Flaubert

“…let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of mind and loftiness of purpose, which…

— Jose Rizal y Alonso

“It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Accustomed to the calm aspects of things, she turned, instead, toward the more tumultuous. She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery…

— Gustave Flaubert

“To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the wonders of both Heaven…

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“Love, she learned, could reduce its recipient to an essential thing, as important as food or shelter, whose presence is not only longed for…

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“It was all so artificial. It was beautiful, but it did not belong to her. She was a tourist, an outsider, and she could…

— Penni Russon

“I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted…

— Graham Greene