Quotes by : Guy de Maupassant

Solitude is obviously dangerous for people with active brains. We need men around us who have ideas and....

It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.

Get black on white.

He himself was one of your noisy roisterers, for whom life holds no greater pleasures than wine and bought....

The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of....

I am lost! Someone has taken over my mind and is controlling it! Someone is in command of all my actions,....

It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like crystal.....

Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster....

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing....

They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's....