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 absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
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.
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
People who don't count won't count.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.