Jules Renard
Jules Renard
Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renardwas a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotteand Les Histoires Naturelles. Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompreand Huit jours à la campagne...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth22 February 1864
CountryFrance
Jules Renard quotes about
truth power shock
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
talent
Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.
strength strong sweat
The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
war patriot bottom
At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.
letters ridiculous poor
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
relationship like-her compliment
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
writing pay cows
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
solitude world moments
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
horse animal bangs
The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.
self bored insult
I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.
stupid people today
Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
clothes fit should
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
writing doe three
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
talking mystery existence
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.