Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name...

#Gustave Flaubert

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

#Gustave Flaubert

Exuberance is better than taste.

#Gustave Flaubert

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as...

#Gustave Flaubert

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the...

#Gustave Flaubert

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it...

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but...

#Gustave Flaubert

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

#Gustave Flaubert

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

#Dieting