Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert


Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
Gustave Flaubert

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

One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert