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
The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
The best sentence? The shortest.
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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.
People who don't count won't count.
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.