Andre Maurois Quotes
Most popular Andre Maurois Quotes
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
In married conversation, as in surgery, the knife must be used with care.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
To reason with a poor language is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know."
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his, or her, life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
