Top 34 Quotes by Jules Renard

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.