Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. — Andre Maurois Confidence Copy Share Image
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — 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
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape. — Andre Maurois Action Copy Share Image
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste. — Andre Maurois Combat 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
When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a… — Andre Maurois Character 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 Country 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
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and… — Andre Maurois Dignity Copy Share Image
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not… — Andre Maurois Desire Copy Share Image
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a… — Andre Maurois Art 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
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge… — 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 Actors 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
“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
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over… — Andre Maurois Action 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 Copy Share Image
We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her. — Andre Maurois Feminism Copy Share Image
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. — Andre Maurois Character Copy Share Image
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people — Andre Maurois Books Copy Share Image
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. — Andre Maurois Argument Copy Share Image
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. — Andre Maurois Compassion Copy Share Image
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning. — 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. — Andre Maurois Effectiveness Copy Share Image
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. — Andre Maurois Books Copy Share Image
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. — Andre Maurois Fashion Copy Share Image
Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work. — Andre Maurois Aptitude Copy Share Image
In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it. — Andre Maurois 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
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image