Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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
Writing
Sentences
World
Vain
Sounds
Sound
Words
Language
Shortest
Understand
Finest
Best
Sentence
More quotes by Anatole France
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
Anatole France
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
Anatole France
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
Anatole France
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
Anatole France
Change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Anatole France
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
Anatole France
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
Anatole France
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
Anatole France
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France
For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
Anatole France
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
Anatole France
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
