“Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.”Gustave Flaubert Madame BovarySource: Madame Bovary
“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 Madame BovarySource: Madame Bovary
“The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”Gustave Flaubert Madame BovarySource: Madame Bovary
“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything”Gustave Flaubert book NovemberSource: November
“What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.”Gustave Flaubert Madame BovarySource: Madame Bovary
“Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.”Gustave Flaubert Madame BovarySource: Madame Bovary