Madame Bovary Quotes

“Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her—the opportunity, the courage.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:courage

“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:youth

“Do you think that to be an agriculturist it is necessary to have tilled the earth or fattened fowls oneself?”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:science

“Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:science

“Do you not know that there are souls constantly tormented?”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:soul

“She confused in her desire the sensualities of luxury with the delights of the heart, elegance of manners with delicacy of sentiment.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:waiting

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