Gustave Flaubert Quotes

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

Gustave Flaubert

Perfection is the enemy of the good.

Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Gustave Flaubert

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

Gustave Flaubert

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert