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
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.
lonely funny-inspirational loneliness
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
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 inspirational valentines-day
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
grow learn less life understand
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live 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?
deceive faces silent timid
Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones
matter writes
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
less life love understand
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
goes last moments
There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last
letters ridiculous poor
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
country inspiration writing
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
fall writing dying
You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.