Gustave Flaubert Quotes

• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The future is the worst thing about the present.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

  Gustave Flaubert

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

  Gustave Flaubert

• The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

  Gustave Flaubert

• Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

  Gustave Flaubert

• Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

  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

• Read much, but not many books.

  Gustave Flaubert

• Read in order to live.

  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 look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

  Gustave Flaubert

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

  Gustave Flaubert

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

  Gustave Flaubert

• One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

  Gustave Flaubert

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

  Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (109)

Birth:	12th December, 1821
Death:	8th May, 1880
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist, Playwriter, Writer

About

Gustave Flaubert was an influential French writer widely considered one of the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary, for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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