156 Quotes by 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.

True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we’re not.

Talent is like money; you don’t have to have some to talk about it.

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

We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.

He walked noisily, like a fish.

Fame is a constant effort.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.