Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist
Born: Dec 12, 1821
Died: May 8, 1880
Art Everything Life Nothing Work You
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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
Happiness Health Good Good Health Selfish Stupidity Three Stupid Lost Though Lacking Requirements
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Gustave Flaubert
Nothing Humiliating Enterprises See More Failed Idiots Than Succeed
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert
Democracy Stupidity Proletarian Dream Attained Bourgeois Whole Level Raise
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
Life Success Future You Challenge Glorious Despair Those Out Promise Rise Rather Feel Days Most Accomplishments So-Called Your Moments
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Gustave Flaubert
History Ignorance Own Our Causes Times Us Slander
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. Gustave Flaubert
Nature Stupidity Nothing Something Attacks Unshakable Without Itself Breaking Against Granite Hard Resistant
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. Gustave Flaubert
Beautiful Man Woman Animal Excess Ideal Vulgar Created Whom
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. Gustave Flaubert
Time Language Dance Long Stars Out Bears Beat Cracked Move Pity Tunes Which While Kettle
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
Work Art You Man Worth Enemies Spoken Calculate Importance His Number Harm
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. Gustave Flaubert
Ignorance Stupidity Devil Nothing Immorality True Name His Legion Here
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 Better Criticism White Rush More Like Attracts Jump Fleas Who
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Gustave Flaubert
Heart Varied Like Stomach Diet Wants
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. Gustave Flaubert
Beautiful Word Thought Faster More Sticks Effect
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
Education Yourself Live Purpose Like Instruction Read Ambitious Children Order Amuse
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. Gustave Flaubert
Me Doubt Everything About Mania Deplorable Doubts Even
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. Gustave Flaubert
Life Education Everything Must Constant Learn Dying Speaking
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. Gustave Flaubert
Young See Sees Sitting Elder Standing
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. Gustave Flaubert
You Long Enough Look Becomes Anything Interesting
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Gustave Flaubert
Love Hope Love Is Plant Everything Ruins Springtime Which Even
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. Gustave Flaubert
Humanity Degraded More Advances
Read much, but not many books. Gustave Flaubert
Books Read Much Many
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
Work God Sense Creation Everywhere Must See All-Powerful Never Invisible Him His Artist
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. Gustave Flaubert
Me Memories Back Possess Seems Date Always Existed
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. Gustave Flaubert
Love Good Sense Above Good Sense Perhaps Because None
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. Gustave Flaubert
Success Must Goal Success Is Consequence
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. Gustave Flaubert
Happiness Life Love Women Love Life Trees France Sun Oranges Ask Apple
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