black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Anand Thakur
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Death Illusion Time
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
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Patriotic Religion War
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
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
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 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
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Death Fact Live
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Excitement History Lady Old
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Inspirational Life Live Worth
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

Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Guy de Maupassant Quotes