Jules Renard

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

— Jules Renard

Fame is a constant effort

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

Words are the small change of thought.

— Jules Renard

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

— Jules Renard