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
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious
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.
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.