Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois
André Mauroiswas a French author...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 July 1885
CountryFrance
Andre Maurois quotes about
teaching angel men
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.
inspirational family men
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
love success anniversary
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
life motivational real
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.
love happiness anniversary
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
marriage conflict crisis
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
happiness being-happy business
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
consider
When yyou become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanized
bad busy french-writer growing habit man time
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
compassion french-writer happiness naturally solid
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
leader quality
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
art beside effort human
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world
astonished choice literature
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
business quickly talk
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly