A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
ANDRE MAUROISA successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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 MAUROISThe difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROISStyle is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
ANDRE MAUROISPeople are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.
ANDRE MAUROISIn literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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 MAUROISWe owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
ANDRE MAUROISA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
ANDRE MAUROISAn artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
ANDRE MAUROISIf you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
ANDRE MAUROISWithout a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
ANDRE MAUROISGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROISThe really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
ANDRE MAUROISThe most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
ANDRE MAUROISThere are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
ANDRE MAUROIS