Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois was born on July 26, 1885 in Elbeuf, Normandy. His childhood name was Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog. He was an eminent author. He was the son of Alice Herzog and Ernest Herzog who was a Jewish textile manufacturer. He was educated at the Lycee Pierre Corneille in Rouen, Normandy. He joined the French Army during the World War I. he served there as an interpreter and then as a liaison officer to the British Army. This experience influenced his writing and he wrote his first Read More...
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.- Andre Maurois
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.
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
