Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
Jules Renard
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
Aphorist
Author
Diarist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
Would
Largest
Build
Room
Rooms
Waiting
Space
Happiness
House
More quotes by Jules Renard
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.
Jules Renard
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
Jules Renard
It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
Jules Renard
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Jules Renard
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
Jules Renard
To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
Jules Renard
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
Jules Renard
I am never bored to be bored is an insult to one's self.
Jules Renard
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
Jules Renard
Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.
Jules Renard
I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
Jules Renard
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
Jules Renard
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Jules Renard
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Jules Renard
In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.
Jules Renard
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
Jules Renard
Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
Jules Renard
There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.
Jules Renard
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
Jules Renard
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Jules Renard