Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassantmopasɑ̃]; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 August 1850
CountryFrance
Guy de Maupassant quotes about
order giving wish
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.
taken pleasure
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
bed born whole-life
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
yellow white flavor
The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
daylight doe horror
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
sweet eye heart
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.
coquetry my-friends
You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
girl sweet artist
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.
country lying easy
To lie about a far country is easy
beer names gentleman
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.
dream real doors
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
certainty
The only certainty is death.
memories eye people
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.
lying heart hands
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.