Quotes by Maurois, Andre

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunp >>

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but >>

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is >>

Quotations about Biography

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like so >>

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, o >>

There is properly no history; only biography. >>

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

Maurois, Andre