advice

aging

biography

business

conversation

experience

family

growing old

happiness

happy marriage

Kansas City

marriage

memory

middle ages

politeness

preference

style

woman

writing

nationality

French

occupation / innovator as

President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival

president

essayist

philosopher

novelist

historian

biographer

screenwriter

literary critic

science fiction writer

religion

Catholicism

children's writer

scientific organization

Académie Française

World War I

seat 26 of the Académie française

Croix-de-Feu

is no more than a bad habit, which a busy man has no time to form.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit, which a busy man has no time to form.

is best when it, like the close of a great drama, leaves behind it a feeling of serenity.

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity.

Business is a combination of war and sport. — Andre Maurois

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

CONVERSATION 178 CONVICTION Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: 1 do not know

1s 2nly lesson is that it teaches us nothing.

The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.

is that without which, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit that a busy person has no time to form.

is available to everyone but availed by few --- few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.

is a long conversation which always seems too short.

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

is not without conflict. A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. Andre Maurois

is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Maurice, Andre

is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. Andre Maurois

is responsible for the two worst inventions of humanity: romantic love and gunpowder.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity 'romantic love and gunpowder.

is not speaking evil of people with whom you have just dined until you are at least a hundred yards from their house.

is always personal. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand. (Andre Maurois)

is not just about being witty; one must also have enough wit to avoid having too much.

WIT It's not enough to be witty; you must also have enough wit to avoid having too much

is the salt of conversation, not the It is great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent Jean de La Bruyere To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the It is great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent Jean de La Bruyere To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

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