169 Quotes by Andre Maurois

For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

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.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast

A happy marriage is a long conversation that seems all too short.

The temporal world rests on a very few simple ideas, notably on the idea of fidelity.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of simple words: I do not know.

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.