Jules Renard Quotes

Jules Renard Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Jules Renard
Type:
Dramatist
Nationality:
French
Birth day:
February 22
Birth year:
1864

  • 1
    A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. Jules Renard
  • 2
    An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. Jules Renard
  • 3
    Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. Jules Renard
  • 4
    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. Jules Renard
  • 5
    Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Jules Renard
  • 6
    Fame is a constant effort. Jules Renard
  • 7
    I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. Jules Renard
  • 8
    I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Jules Renard
  • 9
    If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. Jules Renard
  • 10
    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. Jules Renard
  • 11
    It is not how old you are, but how you are old. Jules Renard
  • 12
    Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard
  • 13
    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. Jules Renard
  • 14
    On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. Jules Renard
  • 15
    Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart. Jules Renard
  • 16
    Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. Jules Renard
  • 17
    The bourgeois are other people. Jules Renard
  • 18
    The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. Jules Renard
  • 19
    The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. Jules Renard
  • 20
    The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. Jules Renard
  • 21
    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. Jules Renard
  • 22
    There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened. Jules Renard
  • 23
    There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. Jules Renard
  • 24
    Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. Jules Renard
  • 25
    We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. Jules Renard
  • 26
    Words are the small change of thought. Jules Renard
  • 27
    Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Jules Renard

 

 

 

 

 

 

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