Hope you enjoy my selection of 11 Jules Renard quotations below:
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”
love, heart, brain, empty
“If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”
afraid, lonely, right
“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
writing, profession, ridiculous, money
“As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more.”
grow, understand, life, learn
“The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.”
man, free, invitation, dinner, excuse
“Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.”
ridiculous, find
“We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.”
understand, know, admit
“We spend our lives talking about this mystery - our life.”
spend, lives, mystery, life
“It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.”
easy, modest, difficult, nobody
"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you."
woman, pretty, roads
“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.”
modest, kind, pride, offend