The best Quotes by Jules Renard

The best Quotes by Jules Renard

Pierre-Jules Renard (22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte and Les Histoires Naturelles.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

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Kindness Excuses

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

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Women Seduction

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

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Love Mind vs. Heart

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

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So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

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I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Glenn Quagmire in Family Guy

Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.

Camille in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 4

Of course, I love Paris. And the food is so delicious. The fashion, so chic. The lights, so magical. But the people, so mean.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 1

It's Paris. Everyone's serious about dinner.

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You haven't done Paris right until you've had at least one wildly inappropriate affair.

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What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

The Parisian has his amus*ments as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

William Cullen Bryant

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.

Thumper in Bambi

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I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

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Tolerance Kindness

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Pope Johannes Paul II

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Winners don't make excuses when the other side plays the game.

Harvey Specter in Suits - Season 1 Episode 12

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Winning Excuses

The only opponents who aren't coming up with excuses for being defeated by me are computers.

Bobby Fischer (World Chess Champion)

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Losing & Defeat Excuses Chess

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

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Monsieur, when a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.

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Foolishness Sky Fingers

The sky is always beautiful. Even when it's dark or rainy or cloudy, it's still beautiful to look at... it'll be there no matter what... and I know it'll always be beautiful.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

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You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.

Bree Van De Kamp in Desperate Housewives - Season 1 Episode 12

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When a woman quits on a man, she either got enough of him or she didn't get enough from him.

Marcel Aymé

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Women Relationships

A jealous female can be tricked into everything.

Hook in Peter Pan

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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Stephen King

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As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

Andy Warhol

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It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Nora Roberts in Happy Ever After

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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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Love Hurting Sad Quotes

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

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Heart Mind vs. Heart Head

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

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Falling in love Mind vs. Heart

Already I can see the chain reaction. The chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason.

The Architect in The Matrix

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Feelings & Emotions Mind vs. Heart

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

Charles Bukowski in Factotum

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Laziness Ambition

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

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Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

George Carlin

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Laziness Ambition Work

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

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