Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Gustave Flaubert quotes, Gustave Flaubert sayings, and Gustave Flaubert proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.Gustave Flaubert
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.Gustave Flaubert
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Farming, a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.Gustave Flaubert
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.Gustave Flaubert
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
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To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.Gustave Flaubert
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.Gustave Flaubert
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.Gustave Flaubert
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Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.Gustave Flaubert
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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.Gustave Flaubert
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.Gustave Flaubert
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Perfection is the enemy of good.Gustave Flaubert
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The future is the worst thing about the present.Gustave Flaubert
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.Gustave Flaubert
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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
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It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.Gustave Flaubert
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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
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Doubt is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.Gustave Flaubert
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.Gustave Flaubert
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Read in order to live.Gustave Flaubert
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It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.Gustave Flaubert
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Making myself known is not what is uppermost in my mind. I am aiming at something better: to please myself.Gustave Flaubert
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.Gustave Flaubert