Compare Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image “What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history. — Nicky Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty. — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
“Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language.” — Agu, Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“Stars give so much to the world without demanding payment. Be likewise.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'. — Mae West Copy Share Image
“our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!” — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it. — Sarah Jio 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
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse,… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris. — Eustache Deschamps Copy Share Image
Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and… — Ashley Olsen Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
