4 Gustave Flaubert Quotes on Expression

Gustave Flaubert quotes on expression

1. One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

45. 'What an unutterable catastrophe!' The apothecary always had the proper expression ready, whatever the occasion.

55. He had had such things said to him so many times that none of them had any freshness for him. Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language. . . . Whereas the truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

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