To please women you either have to be carefree and play the fool or else be tragic and… — Gustave Flaubert
To please women you either have to be carefree and play the fool or else be tragic and passionate. When you say to them quite simply that you love them, women laugh at you.
In the original French
Pour plaire aux femmes, il faut etaler une insouciance de bouffon ou des fureurs de tragedie! Elles se moquent de nous quand on leur dit qu'on less aime, simplement!
Sentimental Education · 1869
★ 1.9Provenance
Current citation
Flaubert, Gustave. Sentimental Education, translated by Patrick Coleman and Helen Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2016, pt. 3, ch. 3.
Original citation
Flaubert, Gustave. L'Education sentimentale [Sentimental Education]. Paris: Michel Levy, 1869, pt. 3, ch. 3.
