Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
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
Whatever
Adjective
Give
Qualify
Giving
Verb
Writing
Adjectives
Verbs
Express
Movement
Word
More quotes by 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
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
Guy de Maupassant
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
Guy de Maupassant
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
Guy de Maupassant
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
Guy de Maupassant
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
To lie about a far country is easy
Guy de Maupassant
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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
We breathe love as we breathe air we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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
One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
Guy de Maupassant
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant
