Jules Romains Quotes

France, Poet
August 26, 1885 – August, 14, 1972.

Jules Romains, born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule, was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. His works include the play Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine, and a cycle of works called Les Hommes de bonne volonté (Men of Good Will).

Also known as Writer

Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.

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- People
- Smart
- Common
Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

Jules Romains
- Know
- Healthy
- Invalids

The world is an enormous injustice.

Jules Romains
- World
- Injustice
- Enormous
There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

Jules Romains
- Women
- Fashion
- Adventure
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Jules Romains
People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.

Jules Romains