156 Quotes by Jules Renard

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

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

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

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

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

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

Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?