Andre Maurois Quotes

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The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
André Maurois
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
André Maurois
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.
André Maurois
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.
André Maurois (Climats)
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
André Maurois
Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
André Maurois (Climats)
Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
André Maurois (Climats)
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
André Maurois
[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques...
André Maurois (Climats)
Thomas Edison said in all seriousness: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labour of thinking"-if we bother with facts at all, we hunt like bird dogs after the facts that bolster up what we already think-and ignore all the others! We want only the facts that justify our acts-the facts that fit in conveniently with our wishful thinking and justify our preconceived prejudices! As Andre Maurois put it: "Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage." Is it any wonder, then, that we find it so hard to get at the answers to our problems? Wouldn't we have the same trouble trying to solve a second-grade arithmetic problem, if we went ahead on the assumption that two plus two equals five? Yet there are a lot of people in this world who make life a hell for themselves and others by insisting that two plus two equals five-or maybe five hundred!
Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
André Maurois
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love.
André Maurois
In literature as in love we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
André Maurois
The friendship of two young people,' says Goethe somewhere, 'is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.' It will perhaps be said that this virgin curiosity is no more than unconscious physical desire; but what does it matter, if this desire sharpens the mind and deadens conceit?
André Maurois
He loved books as other men love women, or opium, or tobacco: they were as a soothing drug to make him forget life.
André Maurois (Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age)
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois Robert d'Harcourt
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. (Andre Maurois)
Alan Black (Larry Goes To Space)