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
men drunk too-much
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
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.
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.
god names knows
God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
yield void poet
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
interest advise
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
inspiring success business
To think is not enough, you must think of something.
kindness be-kind ask-me
Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
space waiting-rooms house
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
dream men window-panes
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.
men ducks long
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
human-nature
The less I understand life, the more I live it!
mean writing style
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
sincerity sincere
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.