Flaubert Quotes

You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form. - Gustave Flaubert

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. - Gustave Flaubert

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. - Gustave Flaubert

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. - Gustave Flaubert

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. - Gustave Flaubert

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible. - Gustave Flaubert

What is beautiful is moral; that is all there is to it. - Gustave Flaubert

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. - Gustave Flaubert

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

There is no truth. There is only perception. - Gustave Flaubert