Quotes by Anatole France

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

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

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

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

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.