5 Gustave Flaubert Quotes on Criticism

Gustave Flaubert quotes on criticism

2. Quelle atroce invention que celle du bourgeois, n'est-ce pas?

3. One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.

15. Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

36. In the tragedy in question, for example, he condemned the ideas but admired the style, abhorred the conception but praised all the details, found the characters impossible but their speeches marvelous

78. Gradually, growing calmer, she came to see that she had been unjust to him. But casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.