Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk
Wednesday March 12th, 2025

Jean Genet Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: France
  • Born: Dec 19, 1910
  • Died: Apr 15, 1986

Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. dreams

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. beauty

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. history

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. success

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. time

St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2025

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. 3 sayings from John Millington Synge

3 sayings from John Millington Synge

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. 28 sayings from William Butler Yeats

28 sayings from William Butler Yeats

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. 27 more wisdom & wit from Dave Barry

27 more wisdom & wit from Dave Barry

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 other views from Winston Churchill

74 other views from Winston Churchill