Quote by Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric o

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! – Anatole France

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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in womens clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. – Anatole France

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire

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…Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way. – David Frost

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