André Maurois Quotes
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that ch...
Show MoreWe owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptio...
Show MoreIn literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken t...
Show MoreStyle is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go floppin...
Show MoreMen and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion ...
Show MoreConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's not...
Show MoreGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intellige...
Show MoreAlmost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to ...
Show MoreThe most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitn...
Show MoreA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...
Show MoreSmile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ig...
Show MoreOld age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished...
Show MoreAbove all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at t...
Show MoreWithout a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...
Show MoreA marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
