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
birthday midlife twenties
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
cat animal humanity
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
laughter laughing heaven
Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.
injustice greater
We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
solitude world moments
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
memories forget-everything world
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
people bourgeois
The bourgeois are other people.
faults clarity blame
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
world injustice forget
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
god sarcastic atheist
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
nature heaven pieces
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
love life marriage
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
bad certainly changes fortune good mood
Certainly there are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune
happiness joy enough
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.