There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWhatever 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.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
-
-
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
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 -
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 -
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 -
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The only certainty is death.
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 -
Military men are the scourges of the world.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
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 -
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
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