Gustave Flaubert híres idézetei
Gustave Flaubert Idézetek az emberekről
Gustave Flaubert idézetek
Gustave Flaubert: Idézetek angolul
“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”
Forrás: November
“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.”
1871
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand
“Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?”
Forrás: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”
Forrás: Sentimental Education
Forrás: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857
“For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.”
Forrás: Madame Bovary
“(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.”
Forrás: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
“The man is nothing, the work — all. (December 1875)”
L'homme n'est rien, l'oeuvre – tout
Slightly misquoted in "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle as L'homme c'est rien – l'oeuvre c'est tout.
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand
“One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.”
12 August 1846
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet
“He is so corrupt that he would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling himself.”
Pt. 3, Ch. 3
Sentimental Education (1869)
“As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.”
William James, in The Will to Believe (1897)
Misattributed
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. (8 September 1871)”
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand
14 June 1853
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet
“What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.”
To Guy de Maupassant (October 26, 1880)
Correspondence
“What a horrible invention, the bourgeois, don't you think? (22 September 1846)”
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet