Guy de Maupassant Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

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

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage; but some people manage to be both.

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

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

The kiss is the safest way to shut up saying everything.

A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.

Military men are the scourges of the world.

History, that excitable and lying old lady.

It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe; it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

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