“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”
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Famous Gustave Flaubert Quotes
“What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.”
“To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.”
Source: Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
Source: The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.”
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
“You can't find the soul with a scalpel.”
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
“Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.”
Source: The Selected Letters
“Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.”
Source: Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life
Source: madame bovary
“For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
Source: madame bovary
“There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.”
“Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.”
“Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.”
Source: madame bovary
Source: Intimate notebook, 1840-1841
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)
Source: The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence
“It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.”
Source: Bouvard and Pecuchet: A Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life