André Maurois Quotes

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

~ André Maurois

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves, their carcases collide with one another and creak.

~ André Maurois

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

~ André Maurois

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

~ André Maurois

Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.

~ André Maurois

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

~ André Maurois

Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

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.

~ André Maurois

Business is a combination of war and sport.

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

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.

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

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.

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois

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

~ André Maurois