A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“No, let us not conquer the heavens. It is enough to have the power to do so. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God,… — Anatole France Copy Share
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France Copy Share
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France Copy Share
“And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the… — Anatole France Copy Share
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But… — Anatole France Copy Share
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not… — Anatole France Copy Share
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop… — Anatole France Copy Share
When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it — Anatole France Copy Share
Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay… — Anatole France Copy Share
