Famous Guy de Maupassant Quotes

  • Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. – Guy de Maupassant

    Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.– Guy de Maupassant

  • I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing – Guy de Maupassant

    I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing– Guy de Maupassant

  • The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. – Guy de Maupassant

    The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.– Guy de Maupassant

  • I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more. – Guy de Maupassant

    I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.– Guy de Maupassant

  • What you love too violently finishes by killing you. – Guy de Maupassant

    What you love too violently finishes by killing you.– Guy de Maupassant

  • It is the encounters with people that make life worth living. – Guy de Maupassant

    It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.– Guy de Maupassant

  • Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness. – Guy de Maupassant

    Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.– Guy de Maupassant

  • Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipw – Guy de Maupassant

    Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipw– Guy de Maupassant

  • I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago? – Guy de Maupassant

    I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?– Guy de Maupassant

  • Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. – Guy de Maupassant

    Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.– Guy de Maupassant