Madame-bovary Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Desiderava al tempo stesso morire e vivere a Parigi.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Dar cum sa vorbesti despre un rau care nu poate fi descris,care isi schimba infatisarea ca norii, care se involbureaza ca vantul?”

— 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

“One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the…

— Gustave Flaubert

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“You should wait, William," Miss Frost said. "The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you…

— John Irving

I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea,…

— L. Ron Hubbard

“They loved the sea. They taught themselves to sail, to navigate and read the weather. Without their mother's knowledge and long before she thought…

— James Carlos Blake

“She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault…

— George R.R. Martin