Anne Frank Quotes


You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.


Citations

Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition. Translated by Susan Massotty, Doubleday, 1995.

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Anne Frank
Anne Frank
  • Born: June 12, 1929
  • Died: March 31, 1945
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Diarist

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.