“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
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Famous Andre Maurois Quotes
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
“We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.”
Source: ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY
“A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.”
Source: Aspects of Biography
“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.”
“The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.”
“There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.”
Source: ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY
“Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.”
“Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.”
“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
“Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.”
“To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.”
“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”
“The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.”
“Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.”
“Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.”
“It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...”
“When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised”
“We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.”
“A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.”
Source: An Art of Living
“You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.”
“Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.”
Source: ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY