Home / Authors / Georges Bernanos

Georges Bernanos Quotes

Author

Georges Bernanos, born on February 20, 1888, was a renowned French novelist and playwright. His works deeply revealed the complexities of human nature and the dark aspects of society, making him an important representative of French literature.

Filter quotes by topic

All Men Firsts Doe Literature Christian Knows Religion Should Catholic Catholicism Christianity Hell Pity Prayer Seems Soul World Dangerous Despise Faces

Famous Georges Bernanos Quotes

“God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.”

Knows Should Despise God Knows

Author:Georges Bernanos

“Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.”

Should Firsts Dangerous Weak Appearance

Author:Georges Bernanos

“Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!”

Men Should Mind Hard Dream Form Asks Names Understanding Simple Poor Loneliness Moved Envy Goods Bless Worldly Fidelity Splendor God Bless Poor Man Console Magnificence Simple Minds

Author:Georges Bernanos

“God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.”

Knows Should Greatness Shining Beggar

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

“When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?”

Should Writing Firsts Doe Self Shows Seems Tears Mercy Oneself Pity Rising Inner Strength Tenderness Flood Autobiography Self Pity

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

About the Author

Born: February 20, 1888
Died: July 5, 1948
Known for: Author
Quotes: 79

Books & Sources

The Diary of a Country PriestRelated source material

Last EssaysRelated source material

Monsieur OuineRelated source material

A diary of my timesRelated source material

The ImpostorRelated source material

MouchetteRelated source material

7 romans de Georges Bernanos : Sous le soleil de Satan, L’Imposture, La Joie, Un crime, Journal d’un curé de campagne, Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette, Monsieur OuineRelated source material

Dialogues des carmélitesRelated source material

Les Enfants humiliésRelated source material

Plea for Liberty: Letters to the English, the Americans, the EuropeansRelated source material

Similar Authors

Anthony TrollopeBrowse related quotes
Herman MelvilleBrowse related quotes
AeschylusBrowse related quotes
HesiodBrowse related quotes
D. H. LawrenceBrowse related quotes
Edwin Louis ColeBrowse related quotes
Gilbert K. ChestertonBrowse related quotes
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelBrowse related quotes
Joseph AddisonBrowse related quotes
Miguel de CervantesBrowse related quotes