Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois
André Mauroiswas a French author...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 July 1885
CountryFrance
happiness mind quality
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.
love quality defects
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
leadership business quality
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.
leader quality
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
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.
pairs weight reason
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
simple jargon philosopher
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.