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
god names knows
God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
effort may looks
I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.
kindness be-kind ask-me
Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
interest advise
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
beautiful wings two
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
yield void poet
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
flower fall delicate-things
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.
writing oxen genius
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
modesty easy difficult
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
less life love understand
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
matter writes
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
audience audiences born curtain die last night presence rise seen
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?
goes last moments
There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last