Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. — Andre Maurois Age Copy Share Image
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape. — Andre Maurois Action Copy Share Image
An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste. — Andre Maurois Combat Copy Share Image
We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her. — Andre Maurois Feminism Copy Share Image
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. — Andre Maurois Character Copy Share Image
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom… — Andre Maurois Absence Copy Share Image
“And why wander in these labyrinths? Once more, for aesthetic reasons; because this present infinity, these "vertiginous symmetries," have their tragic beauty.… — André Maurois Beauty Copy Share Image
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a… — Andre Maurois Character Copy Share Image
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea… — Andre Maurois Country Copy Share Image
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and… — Andre Maurois Dignity Copy Share Image
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of… — Andre Maurois Actors Copy Share Image
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois Adventure Copy Share Image
The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. — Andre Maurois Argument Copy Share Image
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people — Andre Maurois Books Copy Share Image
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. — Andre Maurois Confidence Copy Share Image
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable. — Andre Maurois Attraction Copy Share Image
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. — Andre Maurois Body Copy Share Image
People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent. — Andre Maurois Art Copy Share Image
It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently. — Andre Maurois Education Copy Share Image
We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. — Andre Maurois Death Copy Share Image
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois Appreciation Copy Share Image
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. — Andre Maurois Cold Copy Share Image
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful. — Andre Maurois Death Copy Share Image
