309 Quotes by Anatole France

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.