Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850–93) 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.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
—Guy de Maupassant
Topics: Patriotism
A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one
—Guy de Maupassant
Get black on white.
—Guy de Maupassant
Topics: Simplicity
Military men are the scourges of the world
—Guy de Maupassant
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?
—Guy de Maupassant
Topics: Conversation
Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
—Guy de Maupassant
Topics: Love
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
—Guy de Maupassant
Topics: Women
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