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
The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it
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.
A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.
It is almost 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 difference between right and wrong.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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.
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.