Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is myself.

#Gustave Flaubert

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

#Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance...

#Gustave Flaubert

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given...

#Gustave Flaubert

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that...

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

#Gustave Flaubert

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone...

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been...

#Gustave Flaubert

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with...

#Gustave Flaubert