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
People who don't count won't count.
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
Change is the essence of life.
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.