Quotes from Jules Renard

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

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

I am not sincere even when I am saying that I am not sincere.

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

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

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

A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.

A fool is a man who think another man is a fool.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

Patience is simply the mindset of saying "no thanks" to anxiety. – Unknown

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

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

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

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?

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

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

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

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

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

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.