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
Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
The more you say, the less they remember.
Change is the essence of life.
In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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