Anatole France
Anatole France
Anatole Francewas a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1844
CountryFrance
Anatole France quotes about
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Intelligent women always marry fools
There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
Our passions are ourselves.
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.
When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it