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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”
“I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.”
“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.”
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”
“A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.”
“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.