Hello. Here is a list of 15 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Madame Bovary Quotes
- 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! – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- I always find disruption interesting; I like a change of scene. – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- It’s such a dismal thing, always to be stuck in the same place! – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- 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? – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- Those works that don’t touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art. – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back. – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- They’re always going on about one’s duty – I’m bored to death by the word. […] Lord help me! Our duty is to feel what is great, cherish what is beautiful – not to accept all of society’s conventions, with the humiliations it imposes on us. – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- Doesn’t it revolt you, the way society conspires? Is there a single feeling it doesn’t condemn? The noblest instincts, the purest sympathies, are persecuted, maligned, and if at last two poor souls should find each other, everything is organized to prevent their coming together. – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- There’s not a desert, not a precipice, not an ocean that I wouldn’t cross with you. When we’re living together, our life will be like an embrace that becomes closer and more complete every day! There’ll be nothing to bother us, no worries, nothing in our way! We’ll be alone together, we’ll be everything to each other, forever. – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- All these great artists burn the candle at both ends; they need a dissolute sort of life to give a little spark to their imagination. But they die in the poorhouse, because they hadn’t the sense, when they were young, to save some of their money. – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- Lift me up, take me away, let us go away! All my passion and all my dreams are yours, yours alone! – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- No fortune can hold out against constant wastefulness! – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- Everything was a lie! Every smile hid a yawn of boredom, every joy a malediction, every pleasure its own disgust, and the sweetest kisses left on your lips no more than a vain longing for a more sublime pleasure. – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- An infinity of passions can be contained within a minute, like a crowd of people in a small space. – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
- It’s shameless of you to take advantage of my distress, monsieur! I’m to be pitied, but I’m not for sale! – Quote from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert