Gustave Flaubert Stupid Quotations

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

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