Guy de Maupassant Quotes

Some people never have any luck. All at once, as though a thick veil had been whisked aside, he clearly saw the wretchedness―the bottomless, monotonous wretchedness―of his existence. The wretchedness which had been, which was, and which was yet to come. His last days indistinguishable from the first, with nothing ahead of him or behind him or around him, nothing in his heart, nothing anywhere.

Guy de Maupassant

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Guy de Maupassant

We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain knights, knights of love and fortune, since God has been abolished whose bodyguard we really were. But nobody can ever get woman out of our hearts; there she is, and there she will remain, and we love her, and shall continue to love her, and go on committing all kinds of follies on her account as long as there is a France on the map of Europe; and even if France were to be wiped off the map, there would always be Frenchmen left.

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 governm

Guy de Maupassant

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."]

Guy de Maupassant

Get black on white.

Guy de Maupassant