Andre Maurois Quotes

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.  

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

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.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

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