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.
Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly
When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever