Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image ““Speech is a rolling mill which always stretches out the feelings that go into it.”” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Speech is a rolling machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Words can hurt. Speech can harm. Always think through before you talk and you will save a heart from feeling bitter.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“There’s something interesting about a voice crying out in the wilderness. It’s loud. It’s radical, and by implication, it must be willing and able… — Michelle Walker-Wade Copy Share Image
“Words are wind, and the only good wind is that which fills our sails.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.” — Ho Tzu Nyen Copy Share Image
“The most exaggerated speeches usually hid the weakest of feelings - as though the fullness of the soul did not overflow into the emptiest… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Some things need to be said. And sometimes they require strong words.” — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.” — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“Some people throw out their words. Other people walk their words. Our actions must match our intentions.” — Alisa Hope Wagner 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
