Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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
Become
Writing
Good
Joiner
Editing
Sentences
Writer
More quotes by Anatole France
A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
Anatole France
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
Anatole France
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
Anatole France
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
Anatole France
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
Anatole France
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
Anatole France
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
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
Anatole France
God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
Anatole France
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
Anatole France
