Madame Bovary Quotes
French novels, Realist novels
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“And in his eyes she read a love such as she had never known.”
“The wind blew very hard that day / And snatched her petticoat away!”
“A clear day's warmth will often move / A lass to stray in dreams of love”
“The clerk assured her warmly that idealistic natures were rarely understood.”
“I read Madame Bovary and Jane Austen and George Eliot over and over.”
“Adultery, Emma was discovering, could be as banal as marriage.”
“She stood there, solemn, almost terrible, transfixing him with her great blazing eyes.”
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“He saw no reason why there should be all this to-do about so simple a thing as love-making.”
“Poor little thing! She's gasping for love like a carp on a kitchen table gasping for water.”
“The difficulties he foresaw were so formidable that he quickly banished the disagreeable subject from his mind.”
“"What an unutterable catastrophe!" The apothecary always had the proper expression ready, whatever the occasion.”
“But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled — inevitably — it's the way with everything human.”
“Never had her eyes been so enormous, so dark, so deep: her whole being was transfigured by some subtle emanation.”
“It was for him that she had done it — for this creature here, this man who understood nothing, who felt nothing.”
“And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams.”
“She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague "she" of all the poetry books.”
“"Ah!" she said, lifting her lovely tear-bright eyes to the ceiling. "If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!"”