Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.