Jules Renard Quotes

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

Tired, Nothing, Before

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

Earth, Heaven, Pieces

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

Waiting, Everything, Action

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

Thinking, Enough, Storm

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

Success, Failure, Others

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

Lonely, Try, Afraid

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

Alone, Moments, Places

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

Success, Forget, Makes

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

Love, Heart, Brain

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

Money, Writing, Ridiculous

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

Woman, Pretty, Tell

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
Jules Renard

Everything, Goes, Moments

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

Power, Truth, Makes

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

Beautiful, Two, Line

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

Suffering, Idea, Less

Fame is a constant effort.
Jules Renard

Effort, Fame, Constant

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

God, Reputation, Exists

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

Time, Long, Wait

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
Jules Renard

Heart, Brain, Down

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

Writing, Find, Fashion

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

Words, Small, Making

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

Won, Space, Empty

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

Life, Love, Understand

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: February 22, 1864

Died: May 22, 1910

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