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
A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.
Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the rest of life is nothing but vanity, illusion, waste. There is only one science, love, only one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law, and the prophets.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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.