Quotes by
Guy de Maupassant |
1850-1893 , French writer
He wrote 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. His first published story, Boule de Suif (“The Dumpling”, 1880), is considered his most famous work. | 9 quotes | 624 visits |
Quotations
| • | A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one. 4 |
| • | Seducing women is a man's most exciting adventure. 3 |
| • | When we are alone for too long, we fill the empty space with ghosts. 3 |
| • | It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. 3 |
| • | Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. 3 |
| • | The words of love, which are always the same, take on the flavor of the lips that pronounce them. 2 |
| • | The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. 2 |
| • | Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. 1 |
| • | Of all the passions, the most respectable seems to me to be gluttony. 1 |
