Anatole France

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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.

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

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

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

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.