Quote

Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

Anatole France

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Came
Highway
Two
Highways
Firsts
Obscure
First
Mets
Heart
Dog
Love
Friendship
Life
Meaning
Poles
Creation
Sprung

More quotes by Anatole France

Image
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
Anatole France
Image
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
Anatole France
Image
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
Image
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
Anatole France
Image
People who don't count won't count.
Anatole France
Image
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
Anatole France
Image
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
Anatole France
Image
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
Image
The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
Anatole France
Image
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
Anatole France
Image
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
Image
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
Anatole France
Image
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
Image
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
Image
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Anatole France
Image
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Anatole France
Image
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
Image
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Anatole France
Image
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France
Image
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France