309 Quotes by Anatole France

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Custom alone regulates morals.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.