Guy De Maupassant Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by Guy De Maupassant
Guy De Maupassant Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Several sailors, sheltered behind the curved bottoms of their boats, were watching this battle of the sky and the sea.
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.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.
But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?
Then, one by one, they went away, for night was falling on the storm, wrapping in shadows the raging ocean and all the battling elements.
I should add that there are undoubtedly charming Englishmen; I have often met them. But they are rarely our fellow-guests at hotels.
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.
They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day.
We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation.
Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.
Philippe-Auguste was an ugly child, with uncombed hair and dirt all over him, and the face of a cretin.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
He was a fat little man with short arms, short legs, a short neck, short nose, short everything in fact.
I hope you realize that you really hit it off with the ladies? You must cultivate that. It could take you far.
She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
I think I have already told you that there are certain things which it is not necessary to discuss, and this is one of them.
The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?
Her name was Marroca, probably her maiden name, and she pronounced it as though it had fifteen r's in it.
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
[On Water]
[On Water]
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]
[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]