Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

I like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored.

I get bored in Hollywood.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

I'm a little tired of travelling the world, jaded as that may sound.

I had turned into a trophy wife - and I sucked at it. I wasn't detail-oriented enough to maintain a perfect house or be a perfect hostess. I could no longer hide my boredom when the men talked and the women smiled and listened. I wasn't interested in Botox or makeup or reducing the appearance of the scars from my C-sections.

People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

I mean, sleeping with the same woman, night after night. Boring!

marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen.

Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives become, then it never stops. The whole act becomes automatic and the mind goes on its own. Then sex also is a boredom.

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her.

Can we move this conversation along, I'm getting frightfully tired of 'hoa'.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.