Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert -
Read
Quotes
3 Sourced Quotes
View all Gustave Flaubert Quotes
Source
Report...
She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her.
Gustave Flaubert
Source
Report...
Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
Gustave Flaubert
Source
Report...
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
Quote of the day
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Gustave Flaubert
Creative Commons
Born:
December 12, 1821
Died:
May 8, 1880
(aged 58)
More about Gustave Flaubert...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes