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 giving dinner
The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
men letters clarity
Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
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.
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.
men giving dinner
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
funny money men
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
men long rewards
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
hero men honorable-man
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
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.
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.