Andre Maurois /Emile-Salomon-Wilhelm Herzog/ quotes was a French author. Born: 07/26/1885 Died: 10/09/1967 Country: france

• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/conversation]
• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andre Maurois) [more/bad/habit/time]
• Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. (Andre Maurois) [smile/more/thing/smile]
• Business is a combination of war and sport. (Andre Maurois) [business/combination/war/exercise]
• In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. (Andre Maurois) [literature/love]
• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/day]
• The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. (Andre Maurois)
• Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. (Andre Maurois) [business/business]
• We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. (Andre Maurois) [love]
• Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. (Andre Maurois) [art/more/human]
• 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. (Andre Maurois) [people/look/fool/intelligence]
• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. (Andre Maurois) [happiness/compassion/fool]
• 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. (Andre Maurois) [habit/habit/character/character]
• The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. (Andre Maurois) [recipe/happiness/meditation/past]
• If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi". (Andre Maurois)
• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. (Andre Maurois) [literary style]
• Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. (Andre Maurois) [smile/more/thing/smile]
• We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love. (Andre Maurois) [love]
• Business is a combination of war and sport. (Andre Maurois) [business/combination/war/exercise]
• 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. (Andre Maurois) [men/more/desire]
• 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. (Andre Maurois) [habit/habit/character/character]
• Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. (Andre Maurois) [men/women]
• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/day]
• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. (Andre Maurois) [quality/leader/being]
• A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/nation]
• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/conversation]
• In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. (Andre Maurois) [literature/love/choice/people]
• No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. (Andre Maurois)
• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. (Andre Maurois) [happiness/compassion/fool]
• Style [Is] the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand. (Andre Maurois) [literary style]
• A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem. (Andre Maurois) [feeling/life/present]

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