Gustave Flaubert: Frases en inglés

L'homme n'est rien, l'oeuvre – tout
Slightly misquoted in "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle as L'homme c'est rien – l'oeuvre c'est tout.
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand

12 August 1846
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

Pt. 3, Ch. 3
Sentimental Education (1869)

William James, in The Will to Believe (1897)
Misattributed

The devout exclaimed: "Lord! Eat!"
Salammbô (1862), Ch. 13 : Moloch

Correspondence, Letters to George Sand

14 June 1853
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

To Guy de Maupassant (October 26, 1880)
Correspondence

Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

Fuente: Correspondence, Letters to George Sand, 10 May 1867

22 October 1846
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

Rien n'est humiliant comme de voir les sots réussir dans les entreprises où l'on échoue.
Pt. 1, Ch. 5
Sentimental Education (1869)

There are merely ways of perceiving truth.
Quoted in The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880, ed. and trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), xii.
Correspondence

June 1857
Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie

22 September 1846
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

Fuente: Sentimental Education (1869), Pt. 1, Ch. 4; the most famous portion of this statement is "Exuberance is better than taste..." [Mieux vaut l'exubérance que le goût.]