Famous Quotes / Anatole France
68 Quotations by Anatole France
- 21. It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
- 22. It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
- 23. It is not customary to love what one has.
- 24. It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
- 25. It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
- 26. It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro ...
- 27. It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
- 28. Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
- 29. Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- 30. Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which peo ...
- 31. Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- 32. No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is ...
- 33. Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
- 34. Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
- 35. Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
- 36. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor complaining against the changes which cau ...
- 37. Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never ...
- 38. People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them
- 39. People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
- 40. Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.