Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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
Thing
Beer
Drink
Belief
Scruple
Inspirational
Scruples
Wells
Plagiarism
Book
Copy
Well
Copies
Take
Crafts
More quotes by Anatole France
It is not customary to love what one has.
Anatole France
The impotence of God is infinite.
Anatole France
Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
Anatole France
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
Anatole France
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
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
Anatole France
Our passions are ourselves.
Anatole France
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
Anatole France
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
Anatole France
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Anatole France
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
Anatole France
A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
Anatole France
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
Anatole France
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France
Change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
Anatole France
