Gustave Flaubert1821–1880The quotations of
Gustave Flaubert
French novelist
1821–1880
15 quotes, most often on Art, Clever Jabs and Writing.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
Letters to George Sand, 4 or 5 October 1871- Letters to Madame Louise Colet (14 June 1853)
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
Letters to Madame Louise Colet, 9 December 1852Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Letters to Madame Louise Colet, 14 August 1853One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Letters to Madame Louise Colet, 12 August 1846- Letters to Madame Louise Colet, 22 October 1846
- To Guy de Maupassant (February 16, 1880)
- Letters to Madame Louise Colet, 13 August 1846
- Madame Bovary (1857), Part II, Chapter TwelveIn context
- Madame Bovary (1857), Part I, Chapter NineIn context
- Madame Bovary (1857), Part II, Chapter ThreeIn context
- Madame Bovary (1857), Part I, Chapter SevenIn context
But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.
Madame Bovary (1857), Part II, Chapter FifteenIn context
