Quotes from Anatole France

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant

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

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

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

Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the rest of life is nothing but vanity, illusion, waste. There is only one science, love, only one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law, and the prophets.

Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside...but there is always pain hidden somewhere.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

A woman must decide between a man who women like, and then have no security, or a man who women dont like, and have no happiness.