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
less life love understand
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
grow learn less life understand
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more
inspirational life eye
if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
inspirational life moments
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
inspirational life humility
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
love life marriage
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
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?
matter writes
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
deceive faces silent timid
Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones
goes last moments
There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last
bad certainly changes fortune good mood
Certainly there are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune
letters ridiculous poor
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
truth power shock
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
war patriot bottom
At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.