The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
ANDRE MAUROISTo be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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Memory 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.
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If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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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.
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The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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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.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
ANDRE MAUROIS