Quote

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
Biographer
Critic
Essayist
Historian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Elboeuf
Herzog
Émile Salomon Wilhelm
Andre Maurois
Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
Afraid
Enemy
Moment
Force
Inspirational
Moments
Things
Retreat
Never
Forces

More quotes by Andre Maurois

Image
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
Andre Maurois
Image
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois
Image
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Andre Maurois
Image
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
Andre Maurois
Image
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.
Andre Maurois
Image
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
Image
Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
Andre Maurois
Image
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois
Image
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
Andre Maurois
Image
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
Image
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.
Andre Maurois
Image
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
Andre Maurois
Image
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
Image
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
Andre Maurois
Image
Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
Andre Maurois
Image
Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
Andre Maurois
Image
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
Image
Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
Andre Maurois
Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois
Image
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois