Bovary Quotes
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Bovary Quotes & Sayings
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We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.
— Gustave Flaubert
I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.
— Marjane Satrapi
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.
— Lydia Davis
I would always wait to take you home.
— David Levithan
I'm an orator, a raconteur.
— Ron Shock
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
— Stella Young
One must not give way altogether, and, because others have died, want to die too. You must pull yourself together, Monsieur Bovary. It will pass away.
— Anonymous
A living faith, a glorious hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.
— Noel Coward
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.
— Joseph McCarthy
Charles went to kiss her shoulder.
-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress. — Gustave Flaubert
-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress. — Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary is myself.
— Gustave Flaubert
She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins.
— Gustave Flaubert
The heart is a muscle like any other and the best exercise you can do for it is called picking yourself
up off the floor. — Pleasefindthis
up off the floor. — Pleasefindthis
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
— Salman Rushdie
They didn't get the friendships that formed, the community of people who shared in your same joy.
— Goldy Moldavsky
A good leader can't dwell on the choices he's made, Threetrees used to tell him, and a good leader can't help dwelling on 'em.
— Joe Abercrombie
And only now am I beginning to think that perhaps not all is lost.
— Gaito Gazdanov
I made you a world.
— Josephine Angelini
Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
— Stephen King
realized at that moment that I was British, but evidently not a Briton, and that fine differentiation was now very important; I
— E.R. Braithwaite