All Guy de Maupassant Quotes
- Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food All
- Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but… Back Toward
- The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius. Bordering
- Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. Egg
- Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. Anti War
- It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. Better
- It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. Encounter
- And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds… Attempt
- 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… Age
- If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel… Each
- A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory… Becomes
- Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. Apprehension
- Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it… Appalling
- I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love… Air
- I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago? Ago
- 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… Alone
- ...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. Algebra
- Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. Doubt
- I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden… Acoustic
- A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. Body
- The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. Attracts
- The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary. Avoid
- She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble,… Body
- 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… Brain
- Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. Back Life