“Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure… — 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
