Renard Quotes & Sayings

I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued. — Jules Renard

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. — Jean Renard

the world needs another religion like it needs a bigger hole in the ozone layer. — Gary R. Renard

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. — Jules Renard 1890

The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails. — Jules Renard

damaged bow," Renard said. "Agreed. — John R. Monteith

God does not believe in our God. — Jules Renard

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self. — Jules Renard

How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey. — Jules Renard

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich. — Jules Renard

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

In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg. — Jules Renard

Fate has a funny way of intervening in people's lives. — Katie Ashley

Wrinkles are engraved smiles. — Jules Renard

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies. — Jules Renard

There are no friends; only moments of friendship. — Jules Renard

Words are the small change of thought. — Jules Renard

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. — Jules Renard

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. — Jules Renard

We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice. — Jules Renard

It is not how old you are, but how you are old. — Jules Renard

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted. — Jules Renard

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. — Jules Renard

Style is to forget all styles. — Jules Renard

Style means the right word. The rest matters little. — Jules Renard

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room. — Jules Renard

You will identify yourself either as a body or perfect spirit, as either divided or whole, depending upon how you see others. And, once you understand that, you will be careful about how you think about other people. — Gary Renard

Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon. — 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 melting and vanishing. — Jules Renard

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me. — Jules Renard

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be. — Jules Renard

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. — Jules Renard

He walked noisily, like a fish. — Jules Renard

Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper. — Jules Renard

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous. — Jules Renard

For most of the day, thoughts of Kirk had played through her mind in myriad ways, making her feel excited, happy, nervous, and rebellious all at the same time. — Loki Renard

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

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it. — Jules Renard

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the 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

That's it!" "Anton," her mother gasped. "You startled me." "Sorry, my love." Papa patted her hand as she returned to sit beside him on the edge of the bed. "But I've just had the most astounding idea." "What is it?" The question rang simultaneously from both Nicole and her mother. Her papa smiled. A scheming, devilish, piratical smile that one would expect to see right before a blade ran him through. Nicole flopped onto the divan. "Nicki's going to take a little trip to New Orleans." "But why?" Maman asked. "She just got home." Papa rubbed his palms against his thighs in anticipation. "Don't you see? It will solve everything. It will keep Nicki away from Jenkins and secure the future of Renard Shipping at the same time." "How?" Nicole ventured, somehow certain she'd not like the answer. Her papa's grin confirmed it. "By giving me the next best thing to a son." "And that is . . . ?" her mother prompted. "A son-in-law. — Karen Witemeyer

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise. — Jules Renard

True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not. — Jules Renard

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

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. — Jules Renard

You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without. — Gary Renard

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper. — Jules Renard

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

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. — Jules Renard

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

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. — Jules Renard

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

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself. — Jules Renard

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country. — Jules Renard

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. — Jules Renard

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring. — Jules Renard

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one. — Jules Renard

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all. — Jules Renard

Add two letters two paris and it's paradise. — Jules Renard

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest. — Jules Renard

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

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken. — Jules Renard

It's not how old you are, it's how you are old. — Jules Renard

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

Being bored is an insult to oneself. — Jules Renard

Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things. — Jules Renard

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today? — Jules Renard

Each being is simply what it is and it is a serious mistake to treat your world as though it existed for you, as if what you value in each thing is its value. In a sense, the Buddha argued, all things are "empty," in that they simply do not possess the "soul" that a grasping, craving person invests them with. Pile all your expectations onto some person or object as though you truly hope it will deliver what you want, and you are making the fundamental mistake. The notion of non-soul (anatman) is difficult to understand, but it is one of the Buddha's most provocative teachings. — John Renard

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless. — Gary Renard

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

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

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

The less I understand life, the more I live it! — Jules Renard

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. — Jules Renard

God, he whom everyone knows, by name. — Jules Renard

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

If money does not make you happy, give it back — Jules Renard

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. — Jules Renard

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

If I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more. — Jules Renard

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. — Jules Renard

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying. — Jules Renard

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

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

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were. — 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

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

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

I have a suspicion that you are all mad,' said Dr. Renard, smiling sociably; 'but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship. — G.K. Chesterton

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse. — Jules Renard

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself. — Jules Renard

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

Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it. — Jules Renard

To Renard's suspicious eye, Elizabeth's nebulous role at court had taken on a new and sinister signifiance. This unspoken Protestant heir presumptive was suddenly the greatest obstacle to Prince Philip's path to England and Renard had already resolved to dispose of her at his earliest conveneicne. Accordingly, he invited her to dance and tried his hand at a little subtle flattery. They manoevered delicately down the Hall, like two scorpions locked in mortal combat, but no matter how he tried, he could not get close enough to sting. — Susan Kay

I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts. — Jules Renard

The key to enlightenment lies in a secret that very few people have ever known, but which Jesus knew well. The way you will experience and feel about yourself is not determined by how other people look at and think about you. — Gary Renard

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

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent. — Jules Renard

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say. — Jules Renard