# Jacques Prévert's most famous lines

"Remember, Barbara", "Our Father who art in heaven, stay there" and "We should try to be happy, if only to set an example": the lines of Jacques Prévert everyone knows, from Paroles to Spectacle and Arbres, with the collection each comes from.

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- Jul 3, 2026 · mangavore
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## Top 12

1. **The mother knits / the son goes to war / she finds it all quite natural, the mother.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "Familiale", Paroles (1946).
2. **Remember, Barbara / it rained all day on Brest that day / and you walked smiling / radiant, enraptured, dripping / in the rain.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paroles (1946).
3. **Our Father who art in heaven / stay there / and we will stay on earth / which is sometimes so pretty.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paroles (1946).
4. **We should try to be happy, if only to set an example.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spectacle (1951).
5. **Children in love kiss standing up / against the doors of the night.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spectacle (1951).
6. **A rain of tears can do nothing against a dry heart.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spectacle (1951).
7. **Of two things the moon / the other is the sun.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paroles (1946).
8. **It is terrible / the little sound of a hard-boiled egg cracked on a pewter counter / it is terrible, this sound / when it stirs in the memory of a hungry man.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — "La grasse matinée", Paroles (1946).
9. **Hey, comrade Sun, / don't you think / it's pretty stupid / to give a day like this / to a boss?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — "Le temps perdu", Paroles (1946).
10. **Once trees were people like us / but sturdier, happier, more in love, perhaps wiser.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Arbres (1976).
11. **It's my fault / it's my fault / it's my most grievous spelling fault / that's how I write / giraffe.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Histoires (1946).
12. **When left alone / the mental world / lies / monumentally.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Paroles (1946).

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