Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed,… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.” — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
