Quotes By Gustave Flaubert

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

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

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.

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

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

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

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

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