169 Quotes by Andre Maurois

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

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

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

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.

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

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.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly