black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Alcohol King Wine
You must render: never report.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Report Yourself
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
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

Art Boredom Conversation Fascinate Interest
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Happiness Let Go Myself
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Inspirational Life Live Worth
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Earth Existence Time
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
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

Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Goodness Life Love
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
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Captain Government Responsibility
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Deep Fear Man Panic
We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Guy de Maupassant Quotes