Gustave Flaubert Quotes

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

I have dreamed much and have done very little.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.