156 Quotes by 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.

Words are the small change of thought.

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

Style is to forget all styles.

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

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

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