Famous Andr Gide Quotes

  • In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring… – Andr Gide

    In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring…– Andr Gide

  • Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness. – Andr Gide

    Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness.– Andr Gide

  • Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness. – Andr Gide

    Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.– Andr Gide

  • Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it. – Andr Gide

    Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.– Andr Gide

  • What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told. – Andr Gide

    What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.– Andr Gide

  • I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance. – Andr Gide

    I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.– Andr Gide

  • One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andr Gide

    One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.– Andr Gide

  • This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene–a moment’s forgetfulness suffice. – Andr Gide

    This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene–a moment’s forgetfulness suffice.– Andr Gide

  • There’s no better cure for the fear of taking after one’s father, than not to know who he is. – Andr Gide

    There’s no better cure for the fear of taking after one’s father, than not to know who he is.– Andr Gide

  • Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. – Andr Gide

    Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.– Andr Gide