André Maurois Quotes

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  Business is a combination of war and sport.

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  Topics in Business, Sports

  Tags in Combination, War

• Marriage is one thing, and love is another…You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

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  Topics in Wisdom

• Happiness is never there to stay… Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• Growing old is more like a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Old Age

• Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

  André Maurois

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Fool, Woman

• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Leaders, Lacking, Fitness, Clearly, Acknowledged, Leader, Quality, Whose, Questioned, Good, Most, Such, Being, Force, Important

• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Form, Than, Bad, Growing, Habit, Time, More, Which, Old, Person, Busy

• Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

  André Maurois

  Topics in Family

  Tags in World

• We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.

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• We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

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• To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

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• There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

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• The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.

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• The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.

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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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• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

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• No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

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• Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.

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• Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

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André Maurois (33)

Birth:	26th July, 1885
Death:	9th October, 1967
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

André Maurois was a French author. She educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, both in Normandy. His first novel, Les silences du colonel Bramble, was a witty and socially realistic account of that experience. It was an immediate success in France. He died in 1967 in Neuilly-sur-Seine after a long career as an author of novels, biographies, histories, children's books and science fiction stories. He is buried in Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris.

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