169 Quotes by Andre Maurois

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

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.

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

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.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

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.

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage.