Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...
Andre Maurois
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Love
Keener
Road
Longer
Pleasure
More quotes by Andre Maurois
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors by trying at the outset to imitate them by daring then to be original by destroying one's first productions.
Andre Maurois
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
Andre Maurois
For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
Andre Maurois
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois
We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
Andre Maurois
Old age diminishes our strength it takes away our pleasures one after the other it withers the soul as well as the body it renders adventure and friendship difficult and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
Andre Maurois
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.
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
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.
Andre Maurois
If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre Maurois
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
Andre Maurois
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
Andre Maurois
Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.
Andre Maurois
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre Maurois
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
Andre Maurois
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
Andre Maurois
Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.
Andre Maurois
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois
When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
Andre Maurois
