Flaubert Quote by Mary Doria Russell

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are…

— Anonymous

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Love yourself... enough to take the actions required for your happiness…enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past... enough to set a high…

— Steve Maraboli

For many years, people would say, "Only child? Must have been terrible," and I wanted to say, "You are mentally ill, because it was…

— John Hodgman

“He had no document but his memory; the training he had acquired with each added hexameter gave him a discipline unsuspected by those who…

— Jorge Luís Borges

“My mother, who has read all of Balzac and quotes Flaubert at every dinner, is living proof every day of how education is a…

— Muriel Barbery

“Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer. [1857]”

— Le Figaro

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed brutal.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the…

— Cyril Connolly

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

— Dorothy Parker

“I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what Flaubert said:…

— Emil Cioran