André Maurois Quotes

• 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.

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• Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

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• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

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• A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

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

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in World

• The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

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  Topics in Work

• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

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  Tags in Writers And Writing

• An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

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  Topics in Age

• Old 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. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• 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

• Business is a combination of war and sport.

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  Topics in Business, Sports

  Tags in Combination, War

• 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

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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