Quotes by : Guy de Maupassant

Nevertheless man has found love, which is not a bad reply to that sly Deity, and he has adorned it with....

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hat

What you love too violently finishes by killing you.

After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.

She was no longer the fair-haired, colourless girl whom I had seen at the church fifteen years before,....

There is a part of everything which is unexplored,because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in....

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Get married, my friend, you don't know what it means to live alone, at my age. Nowadays feeling alone....

Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers,....

...perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they would....