24 Quotations by Gustave Flaubert
- 1. A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone th ...

- 2. A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when h ...

- 3. A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

- 4. All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

- 5. As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

- 6. Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in you ...

- 7. Exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not som ...

- 8. For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and h ...

- 9. Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to co ...

- 10. Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the ti ...

- 11. Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

- 12. Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc-wreaking ...

- 13. One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cann ...

- 14. Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

- 15. Perfection is the enemy of the good.

- 16. Read in order to live.

- 17. Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

- 18. That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself ...

- 19. The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we ...

- 20. The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days ...

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