Anatole France Quotes - Page 4

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• What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

  Anatole France

  Past, Men, Civilization

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• A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

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  Life, Love Is, Beef

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.28, 谷月社

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• To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

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  Funny, Ideas, Atheism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

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  Stupid, People, Doe

  Anatole France (2015). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard: Works by France”, p.154, 谷月社

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• Silence is the wit of fools.

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  Silence, Literature, Fool

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• It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

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  Political, Poor, Forbidden

  Anatole France (2008). “Crainquebille”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

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  Lying, Boredom, Humanity

  "The last word on lying" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 1999.

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• Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

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  Ignorance, Men, Conquer The World

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• 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.

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  Dog, Religious, Animal

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.1257, Delphi Classics

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• The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

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  Writing, Sound, World

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• 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.

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  Girl, Regret, Past

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• 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.

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  Thank God, Different, World

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• 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.'

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  Father, Animal, Men

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• Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

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  Kind, Carpentry, Sentences

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• To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

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  Life, Beautiful, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

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  Order, Appetite, Has Beens

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.119, Anatole France

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• A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

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  Adventure, Men, Criticism

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• 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.

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  Men, Choices, Doubt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

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  Fall, Angel, Heaven

  Anatole France (2016). “The Revolt of the Angels”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

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  Money, Business, Credit

  "Pierre Noziere". Book by Anatole France, 1899.

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• When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

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  Lying, Book, History

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• We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

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  Self, Talking, People

  "The Literary Life". Book by Anatole France, 1888-1892.

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• You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

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  Writing, Editing, Sentences

  "Anatole France Himself: A Boswellian Record by His Secretary". Book by Jean-Jacques Brousson, 1925.

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• A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

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  Writing, Simple, Light

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• The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

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  Heart, Emotional, Errors

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