Quotes Tagged With :bovary

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion....

One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy....

So don't be too fast to attribute yourself with miraculous sexual powers, The Christ of Love. Emma and....

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society....

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing....

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary....

Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would....

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

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment.....

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with....