Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
Biographer
Critic
Librarian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
Criticism
Masterpieces
Among
Relates
Literature
Adventures
Art
Masterpiece
Soul
Critic
Good
Relate
Critics
Adventure
More quotes by Anatole France
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
Anatole France
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France
The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
The future is a convenient place for dreams.
Anatole France
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
Anatole France
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
Anatole France
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
Anatole France
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Anatole France
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France
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
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
Anatole France
That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
Anatole France
The more you say, the less they remember.
Anatole France
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France
You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
Anatole France
