Gustave Flaubert Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Gustave Flaubert quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased novelist born on Dec 12, 1821). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 71 we have for him.
“Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.”
“Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.”
“Read in order to live.”
“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.”
“I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.”
“Madame Bovary is myself.”
“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”
“But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.”
“I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.”
“I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.”
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