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Anatole France quotes, quotations, sayings

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Charles De Gaulle
 1007    
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore' de Balzac
 1005    
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles De Gaulle
 1005    
As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles De Gaulle
 1005    
Does this boat go to Europe, France?
Anita Loos
 1004    
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Mark Twain
 1004    
Anatomy (n): something everyone has, but which looks better on a girl.
Bruce Raeburn.
 1004    
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Mark Twain
 1004    
San Francisco, n.: Marcel Proust editing an issue of Penthouse.
 1004    
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Anatole France
 1004    
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France
 1004    
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
 1004    
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
 1004    
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 1004    
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
 1004    
A woman must decide between a man who women like, and then have no security, or a man who women don’t like, and have no happiness.
Anatole France
 1004    
No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.
Honore de Balzac
 1004    
Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
John Ruskin
 1004    
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Anatole France
 1004    
If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I
Albert Einstein
 1004    
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
 1004    
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Geoffrey Cottrell
 1004    
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
 1004    
A limerick packs laughs anatomical Into space that is quite economical. But the good ones I've seen So seldom are clean, And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
 1004    
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes-Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde was
 1004    
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man.
Henri B. Stendhal
 1004    
I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. On and off. On and off. One day I got a call from a woman in France who said "Cut it out!
Steven Wright
 1004    
Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.
Thomas Wolfe
 1004    
France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter -- it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.
 1004    
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
Charles A. Lindbergh
 1004    
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.
E. L. Doctorow
 1004    
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.
Einstein
 1004    
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Napoleon Bonaparte
 1004    
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 4. June, 1940
 1004    
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
 1004    
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
 1004    
Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.
Martina Navratilova
 1004    
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
 1004    
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
 1004    
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France
 1004    
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.
Roland Barthes
 1004    
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France
 1004    
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
Charles De Gaulle
 1004    
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France
 1004    
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 1004    
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
 1004    
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
Anatole France
 1004    
The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.
Anatole France
 1004    
God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.
 1004    
Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud
 1004    


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