Famous Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Below are famous quotes by Gustave Flaubert - French realist novelist (1821 - 1880).

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Perfection is the enemy of the good.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

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