André Maurois Quotes

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
André Maurois
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
André Maurois
Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
André Maurois
Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
André Maurois
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
André Maurois
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.
André Maurois
In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
André Maurois
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
André Maurois
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.
André Maurois
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
André Maurois
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.
André Maurois
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.
André Maurois
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
André 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.
André Maurois
One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.
André Maurois
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
André Maurois