Anatole France

Novelist

France

1844 - 1924

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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
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Anatole France