Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois
André Mauroiswas a French author...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 July 1885
CountryFrance
women
We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
love men
You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
women tests acid
Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
discipline routine needs
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
glasses sincerity diamond
Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
soul flesh immortality
Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
women lying perfection
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
gentleman
A gentleman is never in a hurry.
self self-pity pity
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
medicine goes-on old-jokes
Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
hard-work genius aptitude
Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
self-esteem men office
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
spring writing men
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
titles illusion lost
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.