Guy de Maupassant

Quotes by Guy de Maupassant

104 quotes found

Writer · French · 1850–1893

French writer (1850–1893)

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“It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like crystal. The trees, decked out in frost, seem to have sweated ice; the earth resounds beneath one's fe...”
— Guy de Maupassant
cold morning nature sky

“Military men are the scourges of the world.”
— Guy de Maupassant
militarism-war military

“After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.”
— Guy de Maupassant
happiness life misery realism

“Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.”
— Guy de Maupassant
bitter envy