Quote

I have dreamed much and have done very little.

Gustave Flaubert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
Writer
Flaubert
Much
Dreamed
Littles
Little
Done

More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Image
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
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
Image
DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Talent is a long patience.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The morality of art is in its very beauty.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
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
Image
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
Gustave Flaubert