I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Topics: Speech Quotes

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much...

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much...

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears...

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears...

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no...

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no...

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything,...

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything,...

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears...

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears...

Success is a result, not a goal

Success is a result, not a goal

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and...

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and...

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the...

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the...

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and...

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and...

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Exuberance is better than taste.

Exuberance is better than taste.