To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. — Andre Maurois Enough 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 Action 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
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 Art Copy Share Image
Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world… — Andre Maurois Culture Copy Share Image
Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind. — Andre Maurois Body Copy Share Image
To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because… — Andre Maurois Desire 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
