Quote

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Dinner
Truly
Free
Without
Invitation
Giving
Invitations
Men
Decline
Excuse
Management

More quotes by Jules Renard

Image
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
Image
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
Image
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
Jules Renard
Image
Don't tell a woman she's pretty tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Jules Renard
Image
The bourgeois are other people.
Jules Renard
Image
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard
Image
I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.
Jules Renard
Image
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
Jules Renard
Image
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
Jules Renard
Image
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
Jules Renard
Image
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.
Jules Renard
Image
I am never bored to be bored is an insult to one's self.
Jules Renard
Image
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Jules Renard
Image
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Jules Renard
Image
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
Jules Renard
Image
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
Image
Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
Jules Renard
Image
If money does not make you happy, give it back
Jules Renard
Image
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Jules Renard
Image
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard