Madame Bovary Foolishness and Folly Quotes Page 1

[Emma] considered herself much more unhappy now, for she had experienced grief and knew it would never end.

A woman who had imposed such great sacrifices on herself certainly had a right to indulge in a few whims. She bought herself a Gothic prie-dieu; she spent fourteen francs in one month on lemons with which to bleach her fingernails, she sent for a blue cashmere dress from Rouen; she bought the finest scarf in Lheureux’s shop. (II.7.5)

"Don’t you know there are some souls that are constantly tormented? They need dreams and action, one after the other, the purest passions, the most frenzied pleasures, and it leads them to throw themselves into all sorts of fantasies and follies." (II.8.40)

"I’m wrong, wrong!" she said. "I’m mad to listen to you!"

"Why? Emma! Emma!"

"Oh, Rodolphe," said the young woman slowly, leaning on his shoulder.

The broadcloth of her dress clung to the velvet of his coat. She tilted back her head and a long tremor ran through her body; weeping and hiding her face, she abandoned herself. (II.9.47-48)