Gustave Flaubert Quotes about Criticism

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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

Gustave Flaubert

Heart, Criticism, Degrees

Gustave Flaubert (2005). “November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style”, Hesperus Press

Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.

Gustave Flaubert

Games, Criticism, Hierarchy

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.15, Harvard University Press