Beautiful Quote by 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

“She was ashamed at feeling disappointed; and began to reflect, as an excuse to herself, on the little objects which attract attention when there…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that…

— Jo Baker

“Her work was all she had or wanted. But there were times, like tonight, when she felt that sudden, peculiar emptiness, which was not…

— Ayn

“She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

“Painting for him, she had realized then, was neither a hobby nor just a way of earning a living. It was a passion and…

— Mary Balogh

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

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“All her life, she was used to being pampered, to having everything she desired, but the things that she valued were never those that…

— F. Sionil José

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable…

— Nella Larsen

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid