Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Gustave Flaubert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880

Topics

ArtLiesLeastUntrue

I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy.

Jens Lekman

LifePeopleStartThinkSexyYou

My favourite actors have always been the character actors.

Matthew Gray Gubler

CharacterAlwaysBeenFavourite

What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.

Matthew Lesko

PeopleBookKnowAboutPrograms

To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.

Summer Sanders

WorkHard WorkChallengeDayPain

I really never saw an obstacle for me in taking leadership positions because, in a very ridiculous way, I thought, 'If Mary Robinson can do it then why can't I?'

Sinead Burke

LeadershipMeThoughtWhyWayNever

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Robin Day

TimeLoseMoralityAgainstGoing

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

Mo Ibrahim

PoliticalRiseYoungFallingApathy

I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.

Loni Love

AmericaWhyWorstUnitedUsedComic

I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!

Jonathan Banks

BirthdayMeBuildingKnifeWhatever

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

Dawn Powell

BookPersonOverBelongWhereOff

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

Chris Isaak

PeopleMeHairYouPoolWant

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

WomenTimeCultureStoryGender

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