266 Quotes by Guy de Maupassant

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

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.

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

You must render: never report.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certain hills, which have become familiar sights and can touch our hearts like happy events. Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart.