Gustave Flaubert Quotes

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
Gustave Flaubert

Death, Friend, Dies

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

Future, Life, Success

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

Work, Life, May

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert

Work, Criticism, White

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert

Happiness, Good, Health

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert

Art, Cannot, Perfection

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Gustave Flaubert

Love, Hope, Plant

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert

Nature, End, Wings

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
Gustave Flaubert

Beautiful, Desire, Almost

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert

Nothing, Succeed, Idiots

There is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustave Flaubert

Truth, Perception

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert

Poetry, True, May

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.
Gustave Flaubert

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert

Yourself, Live, Children

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
Gustave Flaubert

Love, Good, Sense

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave Flaubert

Ignorance, True, Stupidity

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Gustave Flaubert

Life, Writing, Living

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert

Long, Enough, Becomes

Madame Bovary is myself.
Gustave Flaubert

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Gustave Flaubert

Effort, Style, Atrocious

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert

Music, Long, Human

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Gustave Flaubert

Love, Work, Hair

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.
Gustave Flaubert

Judge, Greatest, Book

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert

Art, Lies, Untrue

Read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert

Live, Read, Order

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: December 12, 1821

Died: May 8, 1880

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