Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois Art Copy Share Image
Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude. — Andre Maurois Happiness Copy Share Image
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false. — Andre Maurois Delete Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Astonished Copy Share Image
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. — Andre Maurois Appreciate Copy Share Image
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love. ” — Andre Maurois Gunpowder Copy Share Image
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. — Andre Maurois Enough Copy Share Image
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the… — Andre Maurois Adventure Copy Share Image
“Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.” — André Maurois Anger Copy Share Image
We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be… — Andre Maurois Class 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite… — Andre Maurois Civilization 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… — Andre Maurois Age Copy Share Image
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing… — Andre Maurois Esteem Copy Share Image
Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that… — Andre Maurois Anxiety 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 Another woman 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 Blood 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 Absent 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
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 Accomplished Copy Share Image
“The friendship of two young people,' says Goethe somewhere, 'is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.'… — Andre Maurois Curiosity 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… — Andre Maurois Duration 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 Action Copy Share Image
Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to… — Andre Maurois Accounts Copy Share Image
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