Three Tales Quotes

“Surely it could not have been a dove God had chosen to speak through, since doves could not talk.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Three Tales

“Such killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Three Tales

“She put him near the front door and a number of visitors were surprised that he would not answer to the name 'Polly', which is what all parrots were supposed to be called.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Three Tales

“England and Brittany were places one came back from. But America, the colonies, and the Antilles were lost in some unknown region on the other side of the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Three Tales

“A la lisière du chemin, dans le fouillis des ronces, des houx se dressaient ; çà et là, un grand arbre mort faisait sur l’air bleu des zigzags avec ses branches”
― FLAUBERT GUSTAVE, TROIS CONTES