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
Silence is the wit of fools.
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.