Guy de Maupassant

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

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

The need of work is in me.

Love is always love, come whence it may.

For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town.

he same thing happens whenever the established order of things is upset, when security no longer exists, when all those rights usually protected by the law of man or of Nature are at the mercy of unreasoning, savage force.

The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors.

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.