Browse Gustave Flaubert quotes and sayings.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of […]
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. […]
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men […]
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. Gustave […]
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! […]
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to […]
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. […]
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if […]
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full […]
There is no truth. There is only perception Gustave Flaubert
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as […]
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the […]
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is. Gustave Flaubert
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. Gustave […]
Talent is nothing but long patience. Gustave Flaubert
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. […]
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. Gustave Flaubert
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very […]
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with […]
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original […]
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the […]