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Famous Anatole France Quotes
Source: The garden of Epicurus
“Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.”
Source: The Revolt of the Angels
“You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.”
“A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.”
Source: On life & letters
“Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.”
“Custom alone regulates morals.”
Source: The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France
“Unhappiness does make people look stupid.”
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard: Works by France
“A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.”
“To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.”
“Justice is the sanction of established injustice.”
Source: Crainquebille
“It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.”
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Source: The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France
“It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.”
“Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)
“I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.”
Source: The garden of Epicurus
“Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.”
“Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.”
Source: The Works of Anatole France
“Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)
“It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.”
“Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.”
Source: The Works of Anatole France
“There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.”
“What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.”
“In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.”
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“Change is the essence of life.”
Source: Pierre Nozière
“When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.”
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard: Works by France
“In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.”
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard: Works by France
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard