Jules Renard Quotes (43 Quotes)

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.

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.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Fame is a constant effort.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday.

If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

The bourgeois are other people.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us these are the timid ones

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

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.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

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 ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

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.

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Words are the small change of thought.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired.