Boule De Suif Quotes

“They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's whispered 'shh!' made them all look up. There she was. A sudden silence fell, and at first a feeling of embarrassment prevented them from speaking to her. At last, however, the Comtesse, more of an adept than the rest in social duplicity, asked her: 'Did you enjoy the christening?”
― Guy de Maupassant, Selected Short Stories

“The woman, one of those usually known as a good-time girl, was famous for the premature portliness which had earned her the nickname Boule de Suif. Small, round as a barrel, fat as butter and with fingers tightly jointed like strings of small sausages, her glowing skin and the enormous bosom which strained under the constraints of her dress — as well as her freshness, which was a delight to the eye — made her hugely desirable and much sought after. She had a rosy apple of a face, a peony bud about to burst into bloom. Out of it looked two magnificent dark eyes shaded by thick black lashes. Further down was a charming little mouth complete with invitingly moist lips and tiny, gleaming pearly-white teeth. She was said to possess a variety of other inestimable qualities.”
― Guy de Maupassant, A Parisian Affair and Other Stories

“There was an undoubted affinity in his mind between the two great passions of his life: revolution and good brew. The taste of one immediately brought to mind the other.”
― Guy de Maupassant, A Parisian Affair and Other Stories

“L'autre, très chétive, avait une tête jolie et maladive sur une poitrine de phtisique rongée par cette foi dévorante qui fait les martyrs et les illuminés.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Boule de suif / Mademoiselle Fifi

“L'autre, très chétive, avait une tête jolie et maladive sur une poitrine de physique rongée par cette foi dévorante qui fait les martyrs et les illuminés.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Boule de suif / Mademoiselle Fifi