Quotes by
Jules Renard |
1864-1910 , French writer
French writer best known for Poil de carotte (1894), a bitterly ironical account of his own childhood, in which a grim humour conceals acute sensibility. | 34 quotes | 5,332 visits |
Quotations
| • | Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. 27 |
| • | I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. 15 |
| • | God does not believe in our God. 10 |
| • | To say: “I'm not concerned about politics,” it is like saying: “I'm not concerned about life”. 9 |
| • | True happiness is to reminisce the present. 9 |
| • | Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. 9 |
| • | There are no friends; only moments of friendship. 8 |
| • | You should tell the truth from time to time, in order to believe you when you lie. 7 |
| • | Prudence is a euphemism for fear. 7 |
| • | Wrinkles are engraved smiles. 7 |
| • | I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self. 7 |
| • | The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. 7 |
| • | Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write one page, it writes three hundred. 6 |
| • | Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. 6 |
| • | Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. 6 |
| • | To be able to make a conversation, you must know many useless things. 5 |
| • | The bourgeois are the others. 5 |
| • | Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. 5 |
| • | As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. 5 |
| • | When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness. 5 |
| • | Faith in work is probably another useless faith. 4 |
| • | The farmer may be the only kind of man who does not like the countryside and never admires nature. 4 |
| • | Style is to forget all styles. 4 |
| • | Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. 4 |
| • | Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. 4 |
| • | The most foolish exaggeration is tears. It's annoying as a dripping tap. 3 |
| • | To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine. 3 |
| • | Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper. 3 |
| • | On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. 3 |
| • | Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. 3 |
| • | Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it. 3 |
| • | If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. 3 |
Funny Quotes
| • | I always have the last word in my house and that word is usually “yes.” 5 |
| • | If money does not make you happy, give it to me. 5 |
