694 Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Le charme de la nouveaute , peu a' peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a' nu l'e ternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les me" mes formes et le me" me langage. The charm of novelty, falling little by little like a robe, revealed the eternal monotony of passion, which has always the same forms and the same language.

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.

She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances

Je suis autant Chinois que Fran c° ais. I am as much Chinese as French.

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.