Jean Racine Quotes

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love... view

By: Jean Racine

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes.. view

By: Jean Racine

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it... view

By: Jean Racine

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled... view

By: Jean Racine

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking... view

By: Jean Racine

On the throne, one has many worries.. view

By: Jean Racine

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!.. view

By: Jean Racine

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one... view

By: Jean Racine

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!.. view

By: Jean Racine

There are no secrets that time does not reveal... view

By: Jean Racine

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance... view

By: Jean Racine

Too much virtue can be criminal... view

By: Jean Racine

Without money honor is merely a disease... view

By: Jean Racine

Justice in the extreme is often unjust... view

By: Jean Racine

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes... view

By: Jean Racine

I have everything, yet have nothing.. view

By: Jean Racine

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt... view

By: Jean Racine

A tragedy need not have blood and death.. view

By: Jean Racine

According as the man is, so must you humour him... view

By: Jean Racine

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?.. view

By: Jean Racine

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes... view

By: Jean Racine

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him... view

By: Jean Racine

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me... view

By: Jean Racine

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends... view

By: Jean Racine

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality... view

By: Jean Racine

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't.. view

By: Jean Racine

If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything... view

By: Jean Racine

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before... view

By: Jean Racine

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?.. view

By: Jean Racine

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms... view

By: Jean Racine