Quotes by
André Maurois |
1885-1967 , French writer
He wrote mainly biographies: Percy B. Shelley, Lord Byron, Victor Hugo, and Marcel Proust. | 17 quotes | 593 visits |
Quotations
| • | The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. 3 |
| • | The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it. 2 |
| • | The real evil of old age is not the weakness of the body, it is the indifference of the soul. 1 |
| • | In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. 1 |
| • | The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. 1 |
| • | The art of marriage consists in the ability to pass from love to friendship without sacrificing love. 1 |
| • | Obsessive thoughts drain the soul. 1 |
| • | Beautiful moments are always melancholic. You know they’re fleeting, you want to hold on to them, but you can’t. |
| • | The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. |
| • | All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast. |
| • | A gentleman is never in a hurry. |
| • | We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder. |
| • | The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves. |
| • | We can talk openly about our defects only to those who recognize our qualities. |
| • | If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. |
| • | Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life’s nothingness. |
| • | At the beginning of love, lovers talk about the future; towards the end, they talk about the past. |
