“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love. ” — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — 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
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
It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently. — 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 Copy Share Image
You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques... — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — 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