Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image ““What vast funds of indifference society possesses”” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“It is scarcely fair . . . to permit only those with sufficient funds to spend to appropriate that which, in reality, is the… — Judith C. Waller Copy Share Image
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent — Plato Copy Share Image
“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Care for the needy requires the expenditure of wealth: when all share alike, disbursing their possessions among themselves, they each receive a small portion… — Basil the Great 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
