Anatole France Quotes
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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Si 50 millions de personnes disent une bêtise, c'est quand même une bêtise.
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Je ne sais pas de lecture plus facile, plus attrayante, plus douce que celle d'un catalogue.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Pour accomplir de grandes choses il ne suffit pas d'agir, il faut rêver; il ne suffit pas de calculer, il faut croire.
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En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.
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De toutes les définitions de l'homme, la plus mauvaise me paraît celle qui en fait un animal raisonnable.
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
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For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.
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Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.
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In every ordered State, wealth is a sacred thing: in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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Savoir n'est rien, imaginer est tout.
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Quand une chose a été dite et bien dite, n'ayez aucun scrupule, prenez-la, copiez.
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You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.
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Ce sont les hommes qui n'aiment pas les femmes qui s'intéressent à la toilette des femmes. Et les hommes qui aiment les femmes ne voient pas seulement comment elles sont habillées.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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II n'y a que les pauvres gens qui payent comptant. Ce n'est pas par vertu; c'est parce qu'on ne leur fait pas crédit.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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Mutterings and murmurs, mingling with the rumours of glory, gave rise to fears of an indecisive battle, a precipitate retreat. Insolent voices gave out that a spirit of the lowest category, a guardian angel, the insignificant Arcade, had checked and routed the dazzling host of the three great archangels.
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With impassive gaze, Michael, prince of warriors, measured the extent of the disaster, and his keen intelligence penetrated its causes. The armies of the living God had taken the offensive, but by one of those fatalities in war which disconcert the plans of the greatest captains, the enemy had also taken the offensive, and the effect was evident.
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Le christianisme a beaucoup fait pour l’amour en en faisant un péché.