Quotes by : Gustave Flaubert

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to....

Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the....

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his....

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor,....

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Frederick expected that he would have felt spasms of joy; but the passions grow pale when we find ourselves....

Sometimes I don’t understand why my arms don’t drop from my body with fatigue, why my brain doesn’t....

Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even....

Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds....