Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
Guy de MaupassantWe are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
Guy de MaupassantThere is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
Guy de MaupassantThe English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
Guy de MaupassantWe live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Guy de MaupassantWhatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.
Guy de Maupassant