Quotes By Gustave Flaubert
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Gustave Flaubert
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Gustave Flaubert
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
Gustave Flaubert
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave Flaubert
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
Gustave Flaubert