black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

Guy de Maupassant

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Goodness Life Love
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Doubt Fake Possible
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Alcohol King Wine
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Attraction Death Future Past Present
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Death Fact Live
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

Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

English Flavor Food
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Bed Born Death Life
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Anand Thakur
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Death Illusion Time
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Brother Love
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Inspirational Life Live Worth
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
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

Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Discover Dreams Reality Travel
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Patriotic Religion War
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Encouragement Horror
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

Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
Military men are the scourges of the world.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Man World
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Leaving Literature Myself

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Guy de Maupassant Quotes