Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois
André Mauroiswas a French author...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 July 1885
CountryFrance
art block support
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block.
art book reading
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
art real effort
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
art men people
People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.
art memories men
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.
art beside effort human
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world
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.
defects frankly qualities recognize talk
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognize our qualities
business quickly talk
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly
mind different generations
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
strong women true-woman
A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
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.
women rain wife
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.