Gustave Flaubert nejznámější citáty
Gustave Flaubert: Citáty o životě
Gustave Flaubert: Citáty o lidech
„Umění je tak veliké, že vyplňuje celého člověka.“
Varianta: Umění je tak velké, že vyplňuje celého člověka.
Gustave Flaubert citáty a výroky
„Přemíra kritiky svědčí o neporozumění.“
Varianta: Příliš mnoho kritiky svědčí o nedorozumění.
„Hloupost je cosi neochvějného. Kdokoli na ní zaútočil, na ní ztroskotá.“
Varianta: Hloupost je něco neochvějného. Všechno, co na ni zaútočí, také na ní ztroskotá.
„Všechno odchází, všechno pomíjí, voda teče a srdce zapomíná.“
Zdroj: [King, Stephen, Čtyři roční doby, BETA, Praha, 2003, 80-7306-083-3, 8]
Gustave Flaubert: Citáty anglicky
Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie
Varianta: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
Kontext: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live. (June 1857)
“Don't talk to me about your hideous reality! What does it mean — reality?”
Pt. 1, Ch. 4
Sentimental Education (1869)
Kontext: Don't talk to me about your hideous reality! What does it mean — reality? Some see things black, others blue — the multitude sees them brute-fashion. There is nothing less natural than Michael Angelo; there is nothing more powerful! The anxiety about eternal truth is a mark of contemporary baseness; and art will become, if things go on in that way, a sort of poor joke as much below religion as it is below poetry, and as much below politics as it is below business. You will never reach its end — yes, its end! — which is to cause within us an impersonal exaltation, with petty works, in spite of all your finished execution.
“Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.”
Zdroj: Madame Bovary
18 March 1857
Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres. To Gertrude Tennant (December 25, 1876)
Correspondence
Varianta: Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
14 August 1853
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet
“For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.”
Pt. 2, Ch. 3
Sentimental Education (1869)
Kontext: For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act. They are hampered by mistrust of themselves, daunted by the fear of giving offence; besides, deep feelings of affection are like respectable women; they are afraid of being found out and they go through life with downcast eyes.
“Exuberance is better than taste”
Pt. 1, Ch. 4; the most famous portion of this statement is "Exuberance is better than taste…" [Mieux vaut l'exubérance que le goût.]
Sentimental Education (1869)
Kontext: Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most effective monument will always be the Pyramids. Exuberance is better than taste; the desert is better than a streetpavement, and a savage is surely better than a hairdresser!
“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
Zdroj: Madame Bovary
“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”
Zdroj: Madame Bovary
“Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
Zdroj: Memoirs of a Madman
“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
Zdroj: Madame Bovary
13 August 1846
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet
