Gustave Flaubert Quotes

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.

I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

'LOVE' bit me. It was a marvelous idea, but it was also a terrible mistake. It became too popular; it became too popular.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.

My biggest regret in life - well, one of them - is that I wasn't muskie fishing from '92 to '96 when I was not married.

Of course I had hundreds of crushes on boys!