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Andre Maurois [1885-1967] French

Rank: 102
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André Maurois was a French author.

Age, Marriage, Business, Funny, Happiness, Alone, Art, Dating, Family, Fitness, Great, Intelligence, Relationship, Romantic, Smile, Sports, Time, Truth, War, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.	Age, Time	101
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.	Alone, Family	102
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.	Funny	103
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.	Happiness	104
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.	Art, Great, Work	105
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.	Marriage	106
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.	Marriage	107
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.	Age	108
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.		109
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.	Smile	110
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.		111
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.	Happiness	112
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.	Truth	113
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.		114
Business is a combination of war and sport.	Business, Sports, War	115
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.	Funny, Romantic	116
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.	Business, Fitness	117
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.	Relationship	118
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.	Intelligence	119
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.	Age	120
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.		121
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.		122
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.		123
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.	Marriage	124
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.		125
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.		126
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.		201
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.		202
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.		203
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.	Dating	204
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.		205

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