Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Jules Renard
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French dramatist Jules Renard.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Fame is a constant effort.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
The bourgeois are other people.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
Words are the small change of thought.
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
If money does not make you happy, give it back
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
There are no friends; only moments of friendship.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
God does not believe in our God.
To think is not enough, you must think of something.
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
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