Goncourt
The Goncourt brothers (pronounced ) were Edmond de Goncourt (, 1822–96) and Jules de Goncourt (, 1830–70), both French naturalism writers who as collaborative sibling authors, were inseparable in life.
Read more about Goncourt.
Famous quotes containing the word goncourt:
“The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)
“That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)