Gustave Flaubert Quotes

French - Novelist | December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert

StarsTimeDanceLanguageLongOut

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

SuccessGoalSuccess IsMust

Exuberance is better than taste.

Gustave Flaubert

BetterTasteThanExuberance

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Gustave Flaubert

IgnoranceStupidityNameDevilTrue

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

LiveChildrenPurposeYourselfOrder

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

LifeEducationLearnDyingMust

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Gustave Flaubert

StyleEffortDevotedStubbornness

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

Gustave Flaubert

BeautifulImpossible

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

FuturePresentWorstWorst Thing

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

Gustave Flaubert

MeDoubtEverythingEvenDoubts

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Gustave Flaubert

FaithFreedomArtNothingPoliteness

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Gustave Flaubert

WorkLoveHairShirtBellyHis

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