Gustave Flaubert Quote

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off in our hands.


Madame Bovary (1857) pt. 3, ch. 6 (translated by F. Steegmuller)


We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off in our hands.

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off in our hands.

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off in our hands.

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off in our hands.