The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
GUY DE MAUPASSANTMilitary men are the scourges of the world.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
-
-
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT