Bovary Quotes: top 26 famous quotes about Bovary

Bovary Quotes & Sayings

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We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers. — Gustave Flaubert

I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over. — Marjane Satrapi

I think if you don't trust in yourself, it helps to trust in something else. — Noemie Lenoir

I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. — Lydia Davis

I would always wait to take you home. — David Levithan

I'm an orator, a raconteur. — Ron Shock

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. — Stella Young

One must not give way altogether, and, because others have died, want to die too. You must pull yourself together, Monsieur Bovary. It will pass away. — Anonymous

A living faith, a glorious hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing. — Noel Coward

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary. — Joseph McCarthy

Charles went to kiss her shoulder.
-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress. — Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is myself. — Gustave Flaubert

She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins. — Gustave Flaubert

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties. — Lydia Davis

The heart is a muscle like any other and the best exercise you can do for it is called picking yourself
up off the floor. — Pleasefindthis

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up. — Salman Rushdie

They didn't get the friendships that formed, the community of people who shared in your same joy. — Goldy Moldavsky

A good leader can't dwell on the choices he's made, Threetrees used to tell him, and a good leader can't help dwelling on 'em. — Joe Abercrombie

And only now am I beginning to think that perhaps not all is lost. — Gaito Gazdanov

I made you a world. — Josephine Angelini

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up. — Stephen King

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — David Mitchell

realized at that moment that I was British, but evidently not a Briton, and that fine differentiation was now very important; I — E.R. Braithwaite

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love. — Gustave Flaubert

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed — Margaret Atwood