Quote

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Guy de Maupassant

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Guy de Maupassant
Age: 42 †
Born: 1850
Born: August 5
Died: 1893
Died: July 6
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Valmont
Joseph Prunier
Good
Solemn
Love
Bought
Life
Dress
Like
Treat
Dresses
Misunderstand
Treats
Sacrament
Thing
Sacraments
Something
Spoil

More quotes by Guy de Maupassant

Image
I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
Guy de Maupassant
Image
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
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.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
Guy de Maupassant
Image
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
To lie about a far country is easy
Guy de Maupassant
Image
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
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
Image
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
Guy de Maupassant
Image
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
Guy de Maupassant
Image
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant