Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

John Banville

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I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.

Joel Salatin

SchoolMomSkillsElementary School

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

John Hawkes

KnowledgeFightProblemsProblemWho

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

John James Audubon

MyselfMeDeepestNobleRetireSome

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Robert Kennedy

MenDreamWhyNeverAskSee

Life doesn't end at 30.

Jeanne Moreau

LifeEnd

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

Michael Ignatieff

PoliticsPatriotismAmericanAmerica

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

Simon Hoggart

HistoryChildhoodGovernmentCountry

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Simon McBurney

DoorWorldYouUnderstandTryDeal

Liver, lungs, heads, tails, kidneys, testicles, all of these things which are traditional, delicious and nutritious parts of our gastronomy go to waste.

Tristram Stuart

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Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Mary Astell

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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Miguel de Cervantes

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