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André Maurois on Christmas

1885–1967 France

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

Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble) (1918)

The blend of admiration and compassion is one of the surest recipes for love.

One can love a real woman after having loved her imagined counterpart. Similarly, one can adapt oneself to a society which, previously, one held in contempt.

The Art of Writing (1957)

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness, and love withers quickly in an atmosphere of constraint and gloom.

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)

The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure to be experienced by the sensitive lover.

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)

There are more love marriages in the United States than in any other country, but Americans are also given to quick and frequent divorces.

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)

Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her.

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)

A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)

Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)

Most of us have to conquer and ceaselessly reconquer the person whom we desire. It is therefore necessary to arouse love in that person.

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: André Maurois (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.