Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Gustave Flaubert
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
Writer
Flaubert
Energy
Characteristics
Given
Judge
Book
Goodness
Believe
Judging
Genius
Greatest
Literature
Punches
Force
Characteristic
More quotes by Gustave Flaubert
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
Gustave Flaubert
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
Gustave Flaubert
A thing derided is a thing dead a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
Gustave Flaubert
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Gustave Flaubert
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
Gustave Flaubert
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Gustave Flaubert
I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter
Gustave Flaubert
Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.
Gustave Flaubert
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.
Gustave Flaubert
DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'
Gustave Flaubert
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
Gustave Flaubert
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
Gustave Flaubert
Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave Flaubert
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
Gustave Flaubert
The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
Gustave Flaubert
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
Gustave Flaubert
Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
Gustave Flaubert
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
Gustave Flaubert
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Gustave Flaubert