Quotes About Maurois

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.

Proust fared better. "I cannot even begin to tell you how much pleasure we both derive from the mere presence of LA RECHERCHE in our dwelling," Véra thanked her husband's Gallimard editor, but this before she had begun the Maurois-edited volume, into which she was appalled to see that a great number of slips and misprints had crept. She could not help it; hers was the kind of eye to which typos positively leapt.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.