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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    …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

    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

    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

    Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.– Gustave Flaubert