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 MAUROISWithout a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
-
-
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Business is a combination of war and sport.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
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.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROIS






