Anatole France People Quotations

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.

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

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.

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

People who don't count won't count.

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

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.

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

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