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
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.
kings wine champagne
Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines
dream real doors
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
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
certainty
The only certainty is death.
sleep kissing long
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.
long earth said
I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?
abstinence form worst
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
intelligent fog sea
I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.