There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and … - Gustave Flaubert

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

When I saw my box after that, it was even more special for me.

Gustave Flaubert

There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.

Horse, Passion, Vanity, Handling, Habit, Sense

Same Author Quotes

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Attacks, Granite, Literature, Nothing, Stupid, Unshakable

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Adventure, Inspirational, Modest, See, Travel

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Accomplishment, Blessing, Challenge, Congratulations, Despair, Glorious

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Children, Inspirational, Instruction, Life, Read, Wise

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports. . . . When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

Confess, Ecstasy, Love, Sexy, Thinking, Transports