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Quotes by Jules Renard

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
– Jules Renard
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
– Jules Renard
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
– Jules Renard
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
– Jules Renard
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
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
Fame is a constant effort.
– Jules Renard
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
– Jules Renard
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
– Jules Renard
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
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
– Jules Renard
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
– Jules Renard
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
– Jules Renard
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
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
– Jules Renard
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
– Jules Renard
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
– Jules Renard
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
– Jules Renard
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
– Jules Renard
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
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
– Jules Renard
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
– Jules Renard
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?
– Jules Renard
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
– Jules Renard
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
– Jules Renard
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
– Jules Renard
Words are the small change of thought.
– Jules Renard
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
– Jules Renard
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
– Jules Renard
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
– Jules Renard
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
– Jules Renard