Guy de Maupassant - biography

“The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.”

“It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.”

“The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.”

“It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.”

“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”

“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”

Guy de Maupassant contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Necklace (1909)
The Son’s Return (1909)
L’Expiation (1918)
Yvette (1928)
Ce cochon de Morin (1932)
Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1932)
L’Ordonnance (1933)
Partie de campagne (1936)
Pierre et Jean (1943)
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
La Fuga (1944)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
Le Plaisir (1952)
Trois femmes (1952)
Une femme coquette (1955)
La Terreur des dames (1956)
La Chevelure (1961)
Diary of a Madman (1963)
Umorismo in nero (1965)
Umorismo nero (1965)
Le Horla (1966)
Stimulantia (1967)
Three Ripening Cherries (1979)
Les Tombales (2002)
Bel Ami (2012)