Top 100 Jules Renard Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.”

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

4. “It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old.”

— Jules Renard

5. “Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.”

— Jules Renard

6. “I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.”

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

8. “As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.”

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

10. “There are moments when everything goes well, but don’t be frightened.”

— Jules Renard

11. “We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.”

— Jules Renard

12. “Style is to forget all styles.”

— Jules Renard

13. “Being bored is an insult to oneself.”

— Jules Renard

14. “It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.”

— Jules Renard

15. “If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.”

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

17. “If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.”

— Jules Renard

18. “Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.”

— Jules Renard

19. “Add two letters two paris and it’s paradise.”

— Jules Renard

20. “The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”

— Jules Renard

21. “Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.”

— Jules Renard

22. “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

23. “Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.”

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

25. “The less I understand life, the more I live it!”

— Jules Renard

26. “Style means the right word. The rest matters little.”

— Jules Renard

27. “Fame is a constant effort.”

— Jules Renard

28. “If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.”

— Jules Renard

29. “It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.”

— Jules Renard

30. “God, he whom everyone knows, by name.”

— Jules Renard

31. “To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.”

— Jules Renard

32. “Words are the small change of thought.”

— Jules Renard

33. “If money does not make you happy, give it back.”

— Jules Renard

34. “Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.”

— Jules Renard

35. “Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.”

— Jules Renard

36. “The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.”

— Jules Renard

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37. “Talent is like money; you don’t have to have some to talk about it.”

— Jules Renard

38. “Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.”

— Jules Renard

39. “Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.”

— Jules Renard

40. “We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.”

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

42. “We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.”

— Jules Renard

43. “When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.”

— Jules Renard

44. “Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.”

— Jules Renard

45. “Wrinkles are engraved smiles.”

— Jules Renard

46. “Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.”

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

48. “I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.”

— Jules Renard

49. “Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.”

— Jules Renard

50. “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