309 Quotes by 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.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Intelligent women always marry fools

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.