black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Guy de Maupassant

One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Death Illusion Time
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Death Fact Live
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
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
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Food Myself Passion Respect
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
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Love Price Time
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Excitement History Lady Old
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 MAUPASSANT

Astonishment Death Government People Right
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
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 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 lie about a far country is easy.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Country Easy Lying
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Guy de Maupassant Quotes