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
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois Art Copy Share Image
We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one. — Andre Maurois Console 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
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. — Andre Maurois Cold 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
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
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
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
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
“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
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. — Andre Maurois Enough Copy Share Image
Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude. — Andre Maurois Respite Copy Share Image
Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect… — Andre Maurois Accomplished Copy Share Image
“Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.” — Andre Maurois Psychology 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 Age Copy Share Image
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz. — Andre Maurois Different 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 Achieve Copy Share Image
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. — Andre Maurois Age Copy Share Image
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois Appreciation Copy Share Image
![“Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely…” quote by Andre Maurois](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2c0/andre-maurois-3217_respite_happiness-is-never-there-to-stay-happine_3049377.jpg)
![“[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need…” quote by Andre Maurois](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3f4/andre-maurois-3217_age_marriage-is-one-thing-and-love-is-anothe_3063255.jpg)
