Writer Quotes by Jules Renard

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

— Jules Renard

Words are the small change of thought.

— Jules Renard

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

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

There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

— Jules Renard

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

— Jules Renard

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

— 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

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

— Jules Renard

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

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

— Jules Renard

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

— Jules Renard

The bourgeois are other people.

— Jules Renard

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

— Jules Renard

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

— Jules Renard