Andri Maurois Quotes

“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.”

“We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.”

“Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.”

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

“Business is a combination of war and sport.”

“All art is a revolt against man's fate.”

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

“Come forth, Paladins!Fulfill your destiny!”

“There are only two roles of destiny ”

“Novelists,’ said Ivo, ‘are to the nineties what cooks were to the eighties, hairdressers to the seventies and pop-stars to the sixties… Merely, you know, an expression of the Zeitgeist, Nobody actually reads novels any more, but it’s a fashionable thing to be a novelist – as long as you don’t entertain people of course. I sometimes think,’ said Ivo, his eyes like industrial diamonds, ‘that my sole virtue is, I’m the only person in London who has no intention of writing any kind of novel, ever.”