Famous Gustave Flaubert Quotes
Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.– Gustave Flaubert
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.– Gustave Flaubert
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.– Gustave Flaubert
Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.– Gustave Flaubert
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.– Gustave Flaubert
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.– Gustave Flaubert
…and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.– Gustave Flaubert
People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.– Gustave Flaubert
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.– Gustave Flaubert
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.– Gustave Flaubert