"I should like to go by the Seine to Honfleur." — Gustave Flaubert

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time

Source: The Builders, The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Source: On the Grasshopper and Cricket (1816)

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Gustave Flaubert Quote