Anatole France Quotes

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Being in a hotel room and watching 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' is one of my great joys.

I've always loved the idea of 'Guilty Pleasures.'

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that didn't pinch the better parts of me, an inch of vodka, ten to twelve hours of sleep. - Cole St Clair, Forever.

Life is good, but Wine is better.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

I think our main priority is to make people happy and try to take them out of all that for a second.

Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?