Jules Renard Quotes

Most popular Jules Renard Quotes

Art: to nudge truth along a little. - Jules Renard quote.
Art: to nudge truth along a little.
— Jules Renard

art

Words are the small change of thought. - Jules Renard quote.
Words are the small change of thought.
— Jules Renard

words thoughts

The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat. - Jules Renard quote.
The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat.
— Jules Renard

cats

There is false modesty, but there is no false pride. - Jules Renard quote.
There is false modesty, but there is no false pride.
— Jules Renard The Journal of Jules Renard

pride

Laziness: the habit of resting before fatigue sets in. - Jules Renard quote.
Laziness: the habit of resting before fatigue sets in.
— Jules Renard The Journal of Jules Renard

laziness fatigue

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

ideas

Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard quote.
Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired.
— Jules Renard

laziness

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were. - Jules Renard quote.
Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
— Jules Renard

kindness

I am never bored anywhere; being bored is an insult to oneself. - Jules Renard quote.
I am never bored anywhere; being bored is an insult to oneself.
— Jules Renard Journal

boredom

Talent is like money: you don't have to have some to talk about it. - Jules Renard quote.
Talent is like money: you don't have to have some to talk about it.
— Jules Renard
I finally know what distinguishes man from the beasts: financial worries. - Jules Renard quote.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the beasts: financial worries.
— Jules Renard

money

Walks.  The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. - Jules Renard quote.
Walks.  The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
— Jules Renard The Journals of Jules Renard

mind walking

Everything depends on work. We owe it everything; it regulates our lives. - Jules Renard quote.
Everything depends on work. We owe it everything; it regulates our lives.
— Jules Renard
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. - Jules Renard quote.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
— Jules Renard

love cynical

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. - Jules Renard quote.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
— Jules Renard

mankind

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

success

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest. - Jules Renard quote.
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
— Jules Renard Journal, 1887-1910

advice

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. - Jules Renard quote.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
— Jules Renard The Journal of Jules Renard

success failure laziness success & failure

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. - Jules Renard quote.
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
— Jules Renard

age 40 aging age 20

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room. - Jules Renard quote.
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
— Jules Renard Journal

happiness

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

writing

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred. - Jules Renard quote.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
— Jules Renard
The truly free man is he who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse. - Jules Renard quote.
The truly free man is he who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
— Jules Renard

tact

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself. - Jules Renard quote.
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
— Jules Renard

mistakes

There is nothing like literature.  I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow. - Jules Renard quote.
There is nothing like literature.  I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
— Jules Renard

literature

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper. - Jules Renard quote.
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
— Jules Renard

humor

Love kills intelligence.  The brain and the heart act upon each other in the manner of an hour-glass.  One fills itself only to empty the other. - Jules Renard quote.
Love kills intelligence.  The brain and the heart act upon each other in the manner of an hour-glass.  One fills itself only to empty the other.
— Jules Renard The Journal of Jules Renard

love

Talent is a question of quantity.  Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
— Jules Renard The Journal of Jules Renard

talent