Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very...

#Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm...

#Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for...

#Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without...

#Gustave Flaubert

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

#Gustave Flaubert

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

#Gustave Flaubert

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and...

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert