5 Gustave Flaubert Quotes on Society

Gustave Flaubert quotes on society

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

10. Axion: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

70. 'What's improper about it?' retorted the clerk. 'Everybody does it in Paris!' It was an irresistible and conclusive argument.

98. The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.