André Maurois, born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, was a French author. André Maurois was a pseudonym that became his legal name in 1947.André Maurois is very famous writer in Russia. Many of his books are translated to Russian.During World War I he joined the French army and served as an interpreter and later a liaison officer to the British army. His first novel, Les silences du colonel Bramble, was a witty but socially realistic account of that experience. It was an immediate success in France. It was translated and also became popular in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries as The Silence of Colonel Bramble. Many of his other works have also been translated into English (mainly by Hamish Miles (1894–1937)), as they often dealt with British people or topics, such as his biographies of Disraeli, Byron, and Shelley.During 1938 Maurois was elected to the prestigious Académie française. Maurois was encouraged and assisted in seeking this post by Marshal Philippe Pétain, and he made a point of acknowleging with thanks his debt to Pétain in his 1941 autobiography, Call no man happy - though by the time of writing, their paths had sharply diverged, Pétain having become Head of State of the Nazi-collaborationist Vichy France.During World War II he served in the French army and the Free French Forces.He died during 1967 after a long career as an author of novels, biographies, histories, children's books and science fiction stories. He is buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris.
One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.
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.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness . . . and fewer those who have taken that chance.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. .
