Gustave Flaubert Quotes about Giving

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Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

Gustave Flaubert

Writing, Giving, Wish

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

Gustave Flaubert

Art, Giving, Imagine

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.14, Harvard University Press

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

Gustave Flaubert

Children, Giving, Sugar