Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. Andre Maurois More Quotes by Andre Maurois More Quotes From Andre Maurois Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false. Andre Maurois mind years ideas A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. Andre Maurois conflict crisis marriage Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond. Andre Maurois sincerity glasses diamond 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. Andre Maurois angel teaching men If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. Andre Maurois mind men life Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal. Andre Maurois passion animal men 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 mind culture reality Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Andre Maurois hunting time birthday 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. Andre Maurois quality business leadership Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage. Andre Maurois anger agreement desire Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal. Andre Maurois immortality soul flesh There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors. Andre Maurois madmen brilliant men A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste. Andre Maurois combat waste men No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. Andre Maurois originality doe work Business is a combination of war and sport. Andre Maurois business sports war British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified. Andre Maurois hitting boxing games All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast. Andre Maurois routine discipline needs A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem. Andre Maurois flower song drama For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape. Andre Maurois intelligent wise mean Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel. Andre Maurois maturity expectations writing
