Quotes by : Anatole France

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I sought out the laws which govern nature, solid or ethereal, and after much pondering I perceived that....

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of....

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist,....

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Simple style is like white light. It is complex but its complexity is not obvious.