Anatole France Quotes

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.