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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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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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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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
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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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Savoir n'est rien, imaginer est tout.
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En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.
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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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Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.
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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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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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You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
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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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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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Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.
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Le christianisme a beaucoup fait pour l’amour en en faisant un péché.
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L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.
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Il est bon que le cœur soit naïf et que l’esprit ne le soit pas.
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Les amants qui aiment bien n'écrivent pas leur bonheur.
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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.