Anatole France People Quotations

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

People who don't count won't count.