Andre Maurois Quotes
Top 86 wise famous quotes and sayings by Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
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.
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.
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires
seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.
seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.
For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
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.
One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block.
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.
Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.
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.
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
[ ... ] marriage is one thing, and love is another ... You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques ...