No fortune can hold out against constant wastefulness!
– from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
Tag: Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
What could be better, really, than …
What could be better, really, than to sit by the fire in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the windowpanes, and the lamp burns?
– from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
Personally, if I were the government …
Personally, if I were the government, I’d want the priests to be bled once a month. Yes, every month an ample phlebotomy, in the interests of law and order and morality!
– from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert