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
wrinkles engraved
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
gratitude eye changed
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
no-friends moments
There are no friends; only moments of friendship.
love inspirational valentines-day
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
turns
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
attitude thinking space
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
class horror bourgeois
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
laughter laughing heaven
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
running motivation business
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
ignorance ice fire
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
fashion character men
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
ugly sacred privilege
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
book thinking certain
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
resent meetings ifs
An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.