Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWords dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
-
-
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
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 -
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Military men are the scourges of the world.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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 -
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
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 -
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT