694 Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

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.

I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness of money, success, and the public. Literature has become consumptive. It spits and slobbers, covers its blisters with salve and sticking-plaster, and has grown bald from too much hair-slicking. It would take Christ of art to cure this leper.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.