Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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
Book
Ugly
Books
Reading
Women
More quotes by Anatole France
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
People who don't count won't count.
Anatole France
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
Anatole France
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
Anatole France
It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
Anatole France
Intelligent women always marry fools
Anatole France
