Top 25 Quotes by Guy de Maupassant of 85 - Page 4

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Brother, Despise, Love Always

Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories - Bilingual Edition (English / French): An Adventure in Paris, Boule de Suif, Rust, Marroca, The Log, The Relic, Words of Love, Christmas Eve, Two Friends, Am I Insane?...”, p.81, e-artnow

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

Guy de Maupassant

Men, East, Panic

"French Short Stories". Book by Guy de Maupassant, tr. H. C. Schweikert, "Fright", 1918.

She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.

Guy de Maupassant

Men, Soul, Body

Guy de Maupassant (1923). “The Works of Guy de Maupassant”

The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

Guy de Maupassant

Wine, Glasses, Half

Military men are the scourges of the world.

Guy de Maupassant

Military, Men, World

"On the Water". Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.

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

Believe, Animal, Air

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

Guy de Maupassant

Law, Doe, Youth

Guy de Maupassant (1989). “The dark side of Guy de Maupassant”

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

Guy de Maupassant

Kings, Wine, Champagne

There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort... The need of work is in me.

Guy de Maupassant

Men, Needs, Fifty

"Contemporary Portraits". Book by Frank Harris, 1920.