The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
ANDRE MAUROISMen and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
-
-
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Business is a combination of war and sport.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROIS






