309 Quotes by Anatole France

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

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

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

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

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

The best sentence? The shortest.