
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
– Anatole France
Related Quotes:
- It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924) – Anatole France
- Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
- The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. – Anatole France
- We chase dreams and embrace shadows. – Anatole France
- If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Anatole France
- In art as in love, instinct is enough. – Anatole France
- I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century. – Anatole France
- Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. – Anatole France
- For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end. – Anatole France
- It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks. – Anatole France
- The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. – Anatole France
- All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins. – Anatole France
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. – Anatole France
- If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. – Anatole France
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. – Anatole France
- What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance? – Anatole France
- France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war – Charles de Gaulle
- France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound. – Victor Hugo
- The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. – Henry Miller
- We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. – Marc Aug
- The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port – Anatole Broyard
- Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other. – Anatole Broyard
- There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. – Anatole Broyard
- The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles. – Orrin Woodward
- For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed. – Joe Dunthorne
- Never allow yourself to be defined by your past; -˜yesterday’ is just a word, not a dictionary. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than ‘see you tomorrow? – Jennifer Flackett
- Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained. – Olivia Sudjic
- Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet. – Nicole Krauss
- DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children – Markus Zusak
- The most beautiful word in the dictionary is IMAGINATION. – AuliqIce
- The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others. – Mary E Pearson
- If you’re unable to find your face in the dictionary, then take this opportunity to define yourself. – Faydra D Fields
- Life is a thick dictionary, where you can find the meaning of anything. – gwenth
- I’m 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy. – Almney King
- I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. – Zadie Smith
- Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary. – Ryan TrinderJames
- You don’t have to understand me I am not a word in a dictionary just accept me the way I am. – Maria Nieves
- Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary. – Jennifer Archer
