Andre Maurois Quotes

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Business is a combination of war and sport. - Andre Maurois quote.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
— Andre Maurois Forbes

business

Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies. - Andre Maurois quote.
Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
— Andre Maurois
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. - Andre Maurois quote.
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
— Andre Maurois The Art of Writing

illusion novels

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. - Andre Maurois quote.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
— Andre Maurois The Art of Living

family

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. - Andre Maurois quote.
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
— Andre Maurois Memoires

marriage

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. - Andre Maurois quote.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
— Andre Maurois
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. - Andre Maurois quote.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
— Andre Maurois
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. - Andre Maurois quote.
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
— Andre Maurois in The New York Times

choice

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. - Andre Maurois quote.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
— Andre Maurois The Art of Writing

style

In married conversation, as in surgery, the knife must be used with care. - Andre Maurois quote.
In married conversation, as in surgery, the knife must be used with care.
— Andre Maurois Reader’s Digest

marriage conversation

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past. - Andre Maurois quote.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
— Andre Maurois The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life

happiness the past

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. - Andre Maurois quote.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
— Andre Maurois

old age

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. - Andre Maurois quote.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
— Andre Maurois The Art of Living

marriage conflict

To reason with a poor language is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. - Andre Maurois quote.
To reason with a poor language is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
— Andre Maurois The Art of Living

reason language

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. - Andre Maurois quote.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
— Andre Maurois

arguments

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. - Andre Maurois quote.
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
— Andre Maurois

relationships

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. - Andre Maurois quote.
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
— Andre Maurois The Art of Living

words

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know." - Andre Maurois quote.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know."
— Andre Maurois

conversation

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. - Andre Maurois quote.
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity.
— Andre Maurois The Art of Writing

biography

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. - Andre Maurois quote.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
— Andre Maurois Ariel

self-pity

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. - Andre Maurois quote.
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.
— Andre Maurois Aspects of Biography

memory

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. - Andre Maurois quote.
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.
— Andre Maurois

leadership business

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
— Andre Maurois The Art of Living

literature