309 Quotes by Anatole France

when a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it. Give references? Why should you? Either your readers know where you have taken the passage and the precaution is needless, or they do not know and you humiliate them.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.