Anatole France Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

  Anatole France

  Nature, Evil, Principles

  "The Revolt of the Angels".

• Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

  Anatole France

  God, Pseudonyms, Literature

• Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

  Anatole France

  Often Is, Literature, Innocence

  "The Gods Are Thirsty". Book by Anatole France, 1912.

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

  Anatole France

  Fate, Literature, Poverty

• It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

  Anatole France

  Fashion, Thinking, Fools Day

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1885.

• The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

  Anatole France

  Life, Sweet, Literature

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

  Anatole France

  Art, Adventure, Soul

  La Vie litt‚raire (The Literary Life, 1888) dedicatory letter

• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

  Anatole France

  Art, Atheist, Stupid

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

  Anatole France

  Literature, Conversation, Madmen

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Book, History

  "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard". Book by Anatole France, 1881.

• Silence is the wit of fools.

  Anatole France

  Silence, Literature, Fool

• The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

  Anatole France

  Light, Giving, Literature

  Anatole France (1924). “On life & letters”

• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

  Anatole France

  Motivational, Education, Book

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

  Anatole France

  Wisdom, Literature, Enthusiasm

• Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Boredom, Humanity

  "The last word on lying" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 1999.

• An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

  Anatole France

  Education, School, Mind

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

• Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

  Anatole France

  Ignorance, Errors, Water

  "Pierre Noziere". Book by Anatole France, 1899.

• Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

  Anatole France

  Aberration, Literature, Chastity

• Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

  Anatole France

  Animal, Men, Literature

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1918.

• One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

  Anatole France

  Men, Giving, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Suffering... 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.

  Anatole France

  Depression, Courage, Giving

  "The Garden of Epicurus". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

• War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

  Anatole France

  War, Men, Suffering

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