Anatole France Novelist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: France
- Born: Apr 16, 1844
- Died: Oct 12, 1924
Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament".
France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
history
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
men & women
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
God
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
nature
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
fear & future
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
great & religion
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
truth
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
imagination
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
education
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
pet
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
nature
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
education
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
dreams & great
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
art & teacher
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
art & love
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
best
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
equality
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
happiness
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
wisdom
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
wisdom