Andre Maurois Quotes

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Andre Maurois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 26, 1885 - October 9, 1967

Topics

HappinessCompassionFoolSelf-Pity

I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.

Jodie Sweetin

BookWeekGoTwoThroughBig

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

Andrew Sean Greer

MirrorPeopleLookRealizeMust

'Fargo' was the turnaround for me, in terms of film, because it was a part; it wasn't a line.

John Carroll Lynch

MeLineFilmBecausePartTerms

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Andrew Carnegie

LifeSuccessYourselfThinkYou

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Robert Dale Owen

TimeSlavery

Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.

Michael Winter

WoodsTreesYouAgricultureFeeling

No man ever fell in love with me for the way I fill out a Lycra dress.

Lisa Jewell

LoveManDressMeWayOut

As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.

Jason Calacanis

PowerDayEvery DayUnderestimateUs

In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it works the exact same way.

Dmitri Alperovitch

PoliticalAmericaYouWaySameMay

If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience.

Douglas Alexander

FearExperienceGenerationYouJust

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

Brian Eno

WorkMusicComputersPresentEnd

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

ArtLiesTellingPoetsTelling Lies

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