Guy de Maupassant

Writer French 1850 – 1893

French writer famous for short stories and novels.

390 quotes

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
Life
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Freedom
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hopes."
Love
"Wealth is the test of a man's character."
Money
"Traveling makes one modest. You see what an enormous place the world is."
Adventure
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Wisdom
"Art should either improve people or delight them."
Art
"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."
Friendship
"The moment we desire to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
Truth
"Nature never wears the same expression twice."
Nature
"Dreams are the only thing that will set you free."
Dreams
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Courage
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."
Success
"A man's life is interest."
Life
"The mediocre mind is concerned with the extraordinary, and the extraordinary mind with the ordinary."
Wisdom
"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."
Happiness
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Truth
"Life is a work of art, painted and redrawn constantly by the artist's hand."
Art
"The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
Justice
"Time passes, people are born and die, and all that remains of a man are his deeds."
Time
"Love is the only thing that can never be mistaken for something else."
Love
"Women are the opposite of men, not in all ways, but in the important ways."
Relationships
"One's an artist, or one is not."
Art
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you truly are."
Freedom
"Patience is a virtue, but there is a limit to all virtues."
Patience
"Knowledge is power, but power without compassion is tyranny."
Knowledge
"Change is the only constant in life."
Change
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Perseverance
"Beauty is truth; truth is beauty."
Beauty
"A sad heart is better than an empty heart."
Life