4 Gustave Flaubert Quotes on Beauty

Gustave Flaubert quotes on beauty

18. Seen from close, her eyes appeared larger than life, especially when she opened and shut her eyelids several times on awakening: black when looked at in the shadow, dark blue in bright light, they seemed to contain layer upon layer of color, thicker and cloudier beneath, lighter and more transparent toward the lustrous surface.

48. Our duty is to feel what is great and love what is beautiful -- not to accept all the social conventions and the infamies they impose on us.

56. Never had Madame Bovary been as beautiful as now. She had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success -- a beauty that is nothing more of less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances. Her desires, her sorrows, her experience of sensuality, her ever-green illusions, had developed her step by step, like a flower nourished by manure and by the rain, by the wind and the sun; and she was finally blooming in the fullness of her nature.

96. The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.