Jules Renard

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

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

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

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

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

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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

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

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.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity it is because one possesses them oneself.

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

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

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

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

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

It's not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

The bourgeois are other people.

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

Prudence is a euphemism for fear.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

It is not a question of how old you are, but a question of 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.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

Words are the small change of thought.

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.

If you are afraid of being lonely dont try to be right.

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

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.

Fame is a constant effort.

There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.

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

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

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

Love is like an hour-glass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

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

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

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

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

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I dont know if God exists but it would be better for His reputation if He didnt.

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

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

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

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

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.