45 Quotations by Andre Maurois
- 1. A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We ...
- 2. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
- 3. A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without conflicts
- 4. A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
- 5. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
- 6. Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at t ...
- 7. An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go floppin ...
- 8. Business is a combination of war and sport.
- 9. Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
- 10. Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness... and fewer those who have taken th ...
- 11. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
- 12. He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
- 13. If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov ...
- 14. If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you crea ...
- 15. If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it ...
- 16. In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
- 17. It is not enough to possess wit. One must have enough of it to avoid having too much.
- 18. Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
- 19. Modesty and unselfishness -- these are virtues which men praise-and pass by.
- 20. No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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