Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
Guy de Maupassant
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Entered
Literary
Leave
Shall
Life
Thunderbolt
Like
Meteor
Thunderbolts
Meteors
More quotes by Guy de Maupassant
To lie about a far country is easy
Guy de Maupassant
A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!
Guy de Maupassant
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
I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they?
Guy de Maupassant
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
Guy de Maupassant
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
Guy de Maupassant
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Guy de Maupassant
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
Guy de Maupassant
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Guy de Maupassant
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
Guy de Maupassant
I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?
Guy de Maupassant
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
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
Guy de Maupassant
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
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 so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.
Guy de Maupassant
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
Guy de Maupassant
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Guy de Maupassant
How weak our mind is how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: We do not understand because we cannot find the cause, we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.
Guy de Maupassant
