The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. — 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 Copy Share Image
The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over… — 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
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. — Andre Maurois 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 Copy Share Image
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block... — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“O mare dragoste nu este de ajuns pentru a lega de tine fiinta pe care o iubesti, daca nu te pricepi sa umpli viata… — André Maurois Copy Share Image
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that the stage… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
