Quotes by Jules Renard

About Jules Renard:

Pierre-Jules Renard was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte (Carrot Top) (1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Nature Stories) (1896). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking) (1898) and Huit jours à la campagne (A Week in the Country) (1906).
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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Jules Renard

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

Jules Renard

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

Jules Renard

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Jules Renard

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

Jules Renard

Words are the small change of thought.

Jules Renard

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

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

Jules Renard

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Jules Renard

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.

Jules Renard

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

Jules Renard

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

Jules Renard

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

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

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 d...

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

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

Jules Renard

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

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

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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

Author Bio

  • NameJules Renard
  • DescriptionFrench author
  • BornFebruary 22, 1864
  • DiedMay 22, 1910
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Aphorist; Playwright; Novelist