Andre Maurois Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.

  Andre Maurois

  Anger, Agreement, Desire

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

• 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.

  Andre Maurois

  Life, Men, Mind

• To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

  Andre Maurois

  Women, Wine, Pretty Woman

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

• The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.

  Andre Maurois

  Wise, Winning, Men

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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