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 best sentence? The shortest.
There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
Intelligent women always marry fools
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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?
It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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.
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.