694 Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.

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.

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

I have dreamed much and have done very little.