The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars. -Gustave Flaubert

 

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.


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This quote is just one of 20 total Gustave Flaubert quotes in our collection. Gustave Flaubert is known for saying 'The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.' as well as some of the following quotes.

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Gustave Flaubert

Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert