André Maurois Quotes

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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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• Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

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• In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

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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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• If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

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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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