694 Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

Irony takes nothing away from pathos.

People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

She now felt an incessant and universal numbness.