We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove always has its price, come whence it may.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
-
-
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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 -
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
You must render: never report.
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 -
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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 -
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Whatever 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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
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 -
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