Quotes by Anatole France

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

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

Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.