Andre Maurois - Best Quotes

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.

Happiness

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Andre Maurois

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Happiness

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Andre Maurois

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Business

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

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.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Andre Maurois

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Smile for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

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.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

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.