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Authors
Jules Renard
French
Dramatist
About the author
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Interest
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Man
#Giving
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Writing
#Money
#Profession
The bourgeois are other people.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#People
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Heart
#Socialism
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Success
#Forget
#World
#Danger
#Injustice
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Talent
#Quantity
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Men
#Reward
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,
French
Dramatist
#Writing
#Fashion
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Moments
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Power
#Truth
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Earth
#Heaven
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Life
#Talking
#Mystery
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Words
Words are the small change of thought.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Words
#Thought
#Change
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,
French
Dramatist
#Thinking
#Word
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#World
#Moments
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,
French
Dramatist
#Action
#Want
#Waiting
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Habit
#Laziness
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Feet
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Idea
#Suffering
#Causes
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Space
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,
French
Dramatist
#Time
#Will
#Comfort
#Trying
#Mother
#Loss
#Bereavement
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,
French
Dramatist
#Will
#Pretty
#Woman
#Open
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Success
#Failure
#Punishment
#Laziness
Fame is a constant effort.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Effort
#Fame
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#God
#Reputation
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Man
#Financial
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Right
#Being
#Lonely
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Old
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Love
#Heart
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Time
#Man
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
Jules Renard,
French
Dramatist
#Life
#Love