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Top 450 Gustave Flaubert Quotes (2026 Update)
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Gustave Flaubert Quote: “We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.”

451. “We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “It seemed as if she went through life touching it scarcely at all.”

452. “It seemed as if she went through life touching it scarcely at all.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The raging desire to come to a final conclusion is one the most deadly and sterile obsessions that belong to humanity. Every religion and philosophy has made claims to its own God, to have touched the infinite, to have discovered the recipe for happiness. What pride and what emptiness! To the contrary, I see that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works don’t come to final conclusions.”

453. “The raging desire to come to a final conclusion is one the most deadly and sterile obsessions that belong to humanity. Every religion and philosophy has made claims to its own God, to have touched the infinite, to have discovered the recipe for happiness. What pride and what emptiness! To the contrary, I see that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works don’t come to final conclusions.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “All that people have found fault with as exaggerated in fiction you have made me feel.”

454. “All that people have found fault with as exaggerated in fiction you have made me feel.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “So that was all love was! That was all a woman was! Good Lord, why do we still hunger even when we are sated? Why so many aspirations and so many disappointments? Why is man’s heart so big and life so small? There are days when even the love of the angels would not suffice it, and in a single hour it grows weary of all the caresses of earth.”

455. “So that was all love was! That was all a woman was! Good Lord, why do we still hunger even when we are sated? Why so many aspirations and so many disappointments? Why is man’s heart so big and life so small? There are days when even the love of the angels would not suffice it, and in a single hour it grows weary of all the caresses of earth.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “As a child I dreamt of love – as a young man of fame – as a man, of the tomb, that last love of those who have no love left.”

456. “As a child I dreamt of love – as a young man of fame – as a man, of the tomb, that last love of those who have no love left.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Her desires, her sorrows, the experience of pleasure, and her ever-young illusions, that had, as soil and rain and winds and the sun make flowers grow, gradually developed her, and she at length blossomed forth in all the plenitude of her nature.”

457. “Her desires, her sorrows, the experience of pleasure, and her ever-young illusions, that had, as soil and rain and winds and the sun make flowers grow, gradually developed her, and she at length blossomed forth in all the plenitude of her nature.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “For a week he was seen going to church in the evening. Monsieur Bournisien even paid him two or three visits, then gave him up. Moreover, the old fellow was growing intolerant, fanatic, said Homais. He thundered against the spirit of the age, and never failed, every other week, in his sermon, to recount the death agony of Voltaire, who died devouring his excrements, as everyone knows.”

458. “For a week he was seen going to church in the evening. Monsieur Bournisien even paid him two or three visits, then gave him up. Moreover, the old fellow was growing intolerant, fanatic, said Homais. He thundered against the spirit of the age, and never failed, every other week, in his sermon, to recount the death agony of Voltaire, who died devouring his excrements, as everyone knows.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Emma, who had taken his arm, bent lightly against his shoulder, and she looked at the sun’s disc shedding afar through the mist his pale splendour.”

459. “Emma, who had taken his arm, bent lightly against his shoulder, and she looked at the sun’s disc shedding afar through the mist his pale splendour.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “One must not touch idols; the gilt rubs off on one’s hands.”

460. “One must not touch idols; the gilt rubs off on one’s hands.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Anyone who lacks respect for religion comes to a bad end.”

461. “Anyone who lacks respect for religion comes to a bad end.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Everybody can’t be rich! No fortune can hold out against waste!”

462. “Everybody can’t be rich! No fortune can hold out against waste!”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “On his table he piled up humanists, philosophers, and poets. He went to the print room to look at the engravings of Marcantonio. He tried to understand Machiavelli. Gradually the soothing nature of the work calmed him. And delving into the personalities of others he forgot his own, which is perhaps the only way to avoid suffering from it.”

463. “On his table he piled up humanists, philosophers, and poets. He went to the print room to look at the engravings of Marcantonio. He tried to understand Machiavelli. Gradually the soothing nature of the work calmed him. And delving into the personalities of others he forgot his own, which is perhaps the only way to avoid suffering from it.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Anyone without religions will always go wrong in the end!”

464. “Anyone without religions will always go wrong in the end!”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “You!” she said in astonishment; “I thought you very light-hearted.” “Ah! yes. I seem so, because in the midst of the world I know how to wear the mask of a scoffer upon my face; and yet, how many a time at the sight of a cemetery by moonlight have I not asked myself whether it were not better to join those sleeping there!”

465. “You!” she said in astonishment; “I thought you very light-hearted.” “Ah! yes. I seem so, because in the midst of the world I know how to wear the mask of a scoffer upon my face; and yet, how many a time at the sight of a cemetery by moonlight have I not asked myself whether it were not better to join those sleeping there!”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Estomac. Toutes les maladies viennent de l’estomac6.”

466. “Estomac. Toutes les maladies viennent de l’estomac6.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The spelling mistakes were interwoven one with the other, and Emma followed the kindly thought that cackled right through it like a hen half hidden in the hedge of thorns.”

467. “The spelling mistakes were interwoven one with the other, and Emma followed the kindly thought that cackled right through it like a hen half hidden in the hedge of thorns.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “He ceased, looking round for an audience, for in his bubbling over the chemist had for a moment fancied himself in the midst of the town council. But the landlady no longer heeded him; she was listening to a distant rolling.”

468. “He ceased, looking round for an audience, for in his bubbling over the chemist had for a moment fancied himself in the midst of the town council. But the landlady no longer heeded him; she was listening to a distant rolling.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “AMBITION – Always preceded by “mad” when it lacks nobility.”

469. “AMBITION – Always preceded by “mad” when it lacks nobility.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “But life is not a series of deeds. My life is my thoughts.”

470. “But life is not a series of deeds. My life is my thoughts.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The next day, for Emma, was funereal. Everything appeared to her shrouded in a black mist that hovered uncertainly over the surface of things, and grief plunged deep into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in an abandonded chateau. She sank into that kind of brooding which comes when you lose something forever, that lassitude you feel after every irreversible event, that pain you suffer when a habitual movement is interrupted, when a long-sustained vibration is suddenly broken off.”

471. “The next day, for Emma, was funereal. Everything appeared to her shrouded in a black mist that hovered uncertainly over the surface of things, and grief plunged deep into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in an abandonded chateau. She sank into that kind of brooding which comes when you lose something forever, that lassitude you feel after every irreversible event, that pain you suffer when a habitual movement is interrupted, when a long-sustained vibration is suddenly broken off.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Each of the arts has its own particular leprosy, its mortal ignominy that eats its face away. Painting has the family group, music the ballad, literature the criticism, and architecture the architect.”

472. “Each of the arts has its own particular leprosy, its mortal ignominy that eats its face away. Painting has the family group, music the ballad, literature the criticism, and architecture the architect.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.”

473. “How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Then, the anxiety occasioned by her change of state, or perhaps a certain agitation caused by the presence of this man had sufficed to make her believe herself possessed at last of that wonderful passion which hitherto had hovered above her like a great bird of rosy plumage in the splendor of a poetic heaven... But she could hardly persuade herself that the quietness of her present life was the happiness of her dreams.”

474. “Then, the anxiety occasioned by her change of state, or perhaps a certain agitation caused by the presence of this man had sufficed to make her believe herself possessed at last of that wonderful passion which hitherto had hovered above her like a great bird of rosy plumage in the splendor of a poetic heaven... But she could hardly persuade herself that the quietness of her present life was the happiness of her dreams.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Rodolphe reflected a good deal on the affair of the pistols. If she had spoken seriously, it was very ridiculous, he thought, even odious; for he had no reason to hate the good Charles, not being what is called devoured by jealousy; and on this subject Emma had taken a great vow that he did not think in the best of taste.”

475. “Rodolphe reflected a good deal on the affair of the pistols. If she had spoken seriously, it was very ridiculous, he thought, even odious; for he had no reason to hate the good Charles, not being what is called devoured by jealousy; and on this subject Emma had taken a great vow that he did not think in the best of taste.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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