Famous quotes containing the words tales and/or flaubert:
“...I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives’ tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen ....”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)