Guy De Maupassant nejznámější citáty
Guy De Maupassant: Citáty o lásce
Guy De Maupassant: Citáty o životě
Guy De Maupassant citáty a výroky
Guy De Maupassant: Citáty anglicky
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”
"My Uncle Sosthenes"
Zdroj: The Complete Short Stories Vol. 2 of 3
Zdroj: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
"Sundays of a Bourgeois"
Zdroj: Les dimanches d'un bourgeois de Paris, et autres aventures parisiennes
“We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.”
Sur l’eau (1888)
“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”
Variant translation: Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Sur l’eau (1888)
“Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.”
Boule de Suif (1880)
La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)
"The Question of Latin"
Variant translation:
What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? Who knows? How singular life is, how changeable! What a little thing it takes to save you or to lose you.
La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)
As quoted in Contemporary Portraits (1920) by Frank Harris, p. 263
"Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse"