The best Quotes by Jules Renard

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A jealous female can be tricked into everything.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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

I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.

Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. Clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that.