Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois
André Mauroiswas a French author...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 July 1885
CountryFrance
love pleasure
The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure.
love effort anxiety
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
love quality defects
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
love-you love-is blood
A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.
love men
You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
love age needs
[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques...
love happiness two
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
love success anniversary
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
love happiness anniversary
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
love literature chosen
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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