No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
ANDRE MAUROISNo one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
ANDRE MAUROISGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROISAn artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
ANDRE MAUROISTo be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
ANDRE MAUROISA contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
ANDRE MAUROISThe difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROISSelf-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
ANDRE MAUROISThe really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
ANDRE MAUROISIf you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
ANDRE MAUROISIn literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
ANDRE MAUROISLost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
ANDRE MAUROISThe most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
ANDRE MAUROISMemory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
ANDRE MAUROISMen and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
ANDRE MAUROISThe first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
ANDRE MAUROISOld 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