Quotes by : Gustave Flaubert

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything....

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can....

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of....

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic....

If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much.....

At last she sighed."But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless....

Read in oreder to live

Sadness is a vice.